St Georges Garrison Church

St George's Garrison Church is a ruined church in Woolwich, South East London. It become built in 1862-63 as a Church of England vicinity of worship for the Woolwich Royal Artillery garrison. The church became hit by means of a V-1 flying bomb in 1944 and largely destroyed by using fire. The restored spoil with its canopied roof, its blue, crimson and yellow brick partitions, its mosaics and a memorial garden is open to the public on message. The first chapel for the Royal Artillery became a part of the Royal Artillery Barracks Complex at the north cease of Woolwich Common. It turned into constructed in 1808 and after St George's was constructed it changed into transformed right into a theater.

The concept for constructing a brand new garrison church came from Lord Sidney Herbert, The Secretary of State for War. The design of the church is like that of T.H. Wyatt's parish church in Wilton, close to the Herbert own family seat at Wilton House. Lord Herbert absolute confidence encouraged the style of the architect. In Woolwich, Wyatt turned into assisted through his younger brother Matthew. The desire of the Wyatt brothers might also have also been influenced with the aid of the reality that each the close by Royal Artillery Barracks and the Royal Military Academy had been designed via their forebear, James Wyatt. The Wyatt brothers designed a church in the Early Christian / Lombardic Romanesque fashion with Byzantine influences inside the indoors. The church become constructed via the Pimlico builders George Smith and Co.