St George's Church

St. George's Church, Church of St. George, or variants thereof, may refer to various churches dedicated to Saint George:

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St. George's Church (Pungoteague, Virginia)

St. George's Church is a historic Episcopal church on VA 178, northeast of the junction with VA 180 in Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia. The original structure is thought to have been built in 1738 in the form of a Latin cross. It was abandoned during the War of 1812, restored to use seven years later and used until the American Civil War. All but destroyed by Union troops, it was in ruin until 1880, when parts of the transepts were renovated to serve as the main body of the current church. The current church is a brick structure measuring 57 feet, 3 inches, by 25 feet, 3 inches. It is topped by a gable roof with a simple bell tower and is in a simple Greek Revival style.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

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St. George's Church (Queens)

St. George's Church is an intercultural, multilingual Episcopal congregation in Flushing, Queens, New York. with members from over twenty different nations of origin. A landmark church, it has served an ever changing congregation for over 300 years.

History

St. George's was organized in 1702 as a mission of the Church of England by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. The group consisted of the Rev. George Keith, the Rev. John Talbot, and the Rev. Patrick Gordon, who was sent to be the missionary to Jamaica, Queens. Keith, a former Quaker, went into Flusing's Quaker Meeting House in September 1702, announced his presence as a missionary, and engaged in both preaching and debate. This happened several times, and the subsequent early history of St. George's is intertwined with the history of Grace Church in Jamaica, which was where the first Rector, the Rev. Patrick Gordon, resided. Gordon was succeeded in 1704 by the Rev. William Urquhart. Urquhart held services in Jamaica one week, and would then rotate the following weeks to Flushing and then Newtown (now Elmhurst). The community in Jamaica grew into Grace Church; the one in Flushing became St. George's; and the one in Newtown became St. James.

St. George's, Bloomsbury

St George's, Bloomsbury, is a parish church in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, United Kingdom.

History

The Commissioners for the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711 realised that, due to rapid development in the Bloomsbury area during the latter part of the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries, the area (then part of the parish of St Giles in the Fields) needed to be split off and given a parish church of its own. They appointed Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil and former assistant of Sir Christopher Wren, to design and build this church, which he then did between 1716 and 1731. This was the sixth and last, of his London churches. St George's was consecrated on 28 January 1730 by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London.

The Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope was baptised here in 1824. Richard Meux Benson, founder of the first Anglican religious order for men, Society of St John the Evangelist, the "Cowley Fathers", was also baptised in the church. The funeral of Emily Davison, the suffragette who died when she was hit by the King's horse during the 1913 Derby, took place here that same year. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia attended a controversial requiem for the dead of the Abyssinian war in 1937.

Bloomsbury (disambiguation)

Bloomsbury is an area in central London.

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Bloomsbury (horse)

Bloomsbury (1836 –1861) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from May 1839 to July 1841 he ran ten times and won four races. His most important win came on his first racecourse appearance when he won the 1839 Derby. He went on to win important races at Ascot and Liverpool before his retirement after his five-year-old season. He was later exported to stand as a stallion in Germany. Bloomsbury's controversial origins were the subject of two formal objections and a court case which led to a crisis in English racing.

Background

Bloomsbury was a bay horse described as looking "coarse" but very powerful, standing 15.3 hands high, bred by Mr Cattle, a farmer from Sheriff Hutton. The colt was sired by Mulatto the winner of the 1827 Doncaster Cup who went on to be a good, but unexceptional sire. Bloomsbury's dam, Arcot Lass, was one of the few mares to produce two Derby winners: her son St. Giles had won the race in 1832.

Bloomsbury (ward)

Bloomsbury is a ward in the London Borough of Camden, in the United Kingdom. The ward has existed since the creation of the borough on 1 April 1965 and was first used in the 1964 elections.

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1965–1978

Bloomsbury ward has existed since the creation of the London Borough of Camden on 1 April 1965. It was first used in the 1964 election to Camden London Borough Council.

1978–2002

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Camden in 1978.

From 2002

There was a revision of ward boundaries in Camden in 2002. The ward covers roughly the western half of the area of Bloomsbury, which also covers the wards of King's Cross and part of Holborn and Covent Garden, and the eastern half of Fitzrovia, which extends into the City of Westminster.

The ward lies in the south of the borough, and is one of three wards of Camden south of Euston Road (along with Holborn and Covent Garden and King's Cross). It is separated from Regents Park by Euston Road; from King's Cross by Upper Woburn Place, Tavistock Square, Tavistock Place, Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, and Grenville Street; from Holborn and Covent Garden by Guilford Street, Southampton Row, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury Street, and New Oxford Street; and from the City of Westminster by Tottenham Court Road, Hanway Street, Gresse Street, Rathbone Place, Charlotte Street, Rathbone Street, Charlotte Place, Goodge Street, and Cleveland Street.