What they said
Unequivocally the finest modern church in all London
‘The Builder’ magazine (1846) on St George’s, Bloomsbury
Typically compelling and absorbing
Blue Guide ‘City Guide London’
The replication of such Wonders of the ancient world as Egyptian pyramids and the Halicarnassus mausoleum was certainly without precedent in English architecture… Baroque hardly seems appropriate as a stylistic description of much of Hawksmoor’s work
Vaughan Hart, ‘Nicholas Hawksmoor: Rebuilding Ancient Wonders’
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv’d in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it
Nicholas Hawksmoor