St. George's Cathedral, London

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St George's Cathedral, London is an Antiochian church (it and St Botolph's in the City are the only Antiochan churches in London). From 1837 to 1989 it was an Anglican church called Christ Church. Although it is sometimes described as being at 1a Redhill Street, it is more usually described as being on Albany Street in St Pancras (now Camden).

It was consecrated as an Anglican church in 1837, and established itself as firmly within the Oxford Movement. The steeple is unusually small in comparison with the main body of the church. There is almost no decoration on the outside. It was frequented by Christina Rossetti who lived in Albany Street for a couple of years.^[1] Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti produced a stained-glass window for this church called "Sermon on the Mount" (a second copy is elsewhere).^[2]

A school grew up on Redhill Street near the church, called Christ Church Primary School. On 26th January 1950 the church was the location of the funeral service of George Orwell, as it was quite close to Middlesex Hospital where he died, and BBC Broadcasting House, where he worked.^[3]

In 1974, the early music group called the Albany Consort was founded at this church.^[4] In 1989 it ceased to a place of Anglican worship and became St George's Cathedral. A new roof was built in the year 2000.