St George's Hanover Square

St George's Church, Hanover Square
View from St George Street
51°30′45″N 0°8′34″W / 51.51250°N 0.14278°W / 51.51250; -0.14278Coordinates: 51°30′45″N 0°8′34″W / 51.51250°N 0.14278°W / 51.51250; -0.14278
Location	City of Westminster, London
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I
Architect(s)	John James
Administration
Diocese	London
Clergy
Rector	Rev Roderick Leece
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Simon Williams
Churchwarden(s)	Michael Beckett Mark Hewitt
Verger	Seamus O'Hare

St George's, Hanover Square, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, central London, built in the early eighteenth century. The land on which the church stands was donated by General William Steuart, who laid the first stone in 1721. The church was designed by John James and was constructed under a project to build fifty new churches around London (the Queen Anne Churches). It is situated in Hanover Square, near Oxford Circus, in what is now the City of Westminster. Owing to its Mayfair location, it has frequently been the venue for high society weddings.

A civil parish of St George Hanover Square, and an ecclesiastical parish, were created in 1724 from part of the ancient parish of St Martin in the Fields. The boundaries of the ecclesiastical parish were adjusted in 1830, 1835 and 1865 when other parishes were carved out of it. The ecclesiastical parish still exists today and forms part of the Deanery of Westminster St Margaret in the Diocese of London. The land for the church was donated by General Sir William Steuart.

The church was constructed in 1721–25, funded by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, and designed by John James, who had been one of the two surveyors to the commission since 1716. Its portico, supported by six Corinthian columns, projects across the pavement. There is a tower just behind the portico, rising from the roof above the west end of the nave.