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St George in the East is one of six Hawksmoor churches in London.
These churches were built in accordance with a Parliamentary act of 1711 providing tax money for the building of fifty new London churches. These six churches are Hawksmoor's best-known wholly independent works of architecture. They compare in their complexity of interpenetrating internal spaces with current work in Italy by Francesco Borromini. Their spires, essentially Gothic outlines executed in innovative and imaginative Classical detail, dominated the London skyline as a counterpoint to St. Paul's dome, deep into the 20th century.
- St Alfege's Church, Greenwich
- St George's Bloomsbury
- Christ Church, Spitalfields
- St George in the East, Wapping
- St Mary Woolnoth
- St Anne's Limehouse
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