AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEThe Parish Church of St. George, Hanover Square was built in 1716 on land given by General William Stuart, one of the first residents of Hanover Square.
The architect of St. George’s was John James and it is a beautifully simple building in the Palladian tradition of Wren.
It was one of the fifty Churches planned by Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne to replace the many London Churches destroyed during the Great Fire.
But the Church was not often used for burials and the Parish Burying Ground further West between Mount Street and South Street was used until it filled up.
The Grosvenor Chapel, which was on one side of it, Sir Richard Grosvenor built in 1730.
It is today one of the most charming relics of eighteenth century Mayfair.
Brick built with a spire in plain Colonial style, it was copied in countless American towns and hamlets.
Among those buried deep in their mysteriously blocked off vaults are known to be Lady Mary Stuart Wellesley Montague, John Wilkes the populist Reformer and The Earl and Countess of Mornington, who were the parents of the Duke of Wellington.
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