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The grandeur of Hawksmoor's majestic design has inspired many. The stepped tower, influenced by Pliny's description of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and topped with the only statue of King George I , is depicted in William Hogarth's well-known engraving " Gin Lane " (1751). The Portico is the most handsome Georgian portico in London based on the Temple of Baalbek in the Lebanon. Charles Dickens used St George's as the setting for "The Bloomsbury Christening" in Sketches by Boz. The Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope was baptised here in 1824. Richard Meux Benson, founder of the first Anglican religious order for men, the "Cowley Fathers", was also baptised in the church. The funeral of Emily Davison , the suffragette who threw herself in front of the King's horse, took place here in 1913. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethopia attended a controversial requiem for the dead of the Abyssinian war in 1937. As of 2005 it is undergoing restoration. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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