3-021-362 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

St. John the Evangelist, St. George's-in-the-East, 1869. ' This church stands in Grove-street, Commercial-road East. It is a neat and handsome little edifice, built of brick and stone, in what is called the "middle-pointed" style of architecture...It occupies a site which was formerly a cooper's yard, and it forms a decided ornament and the most striking architectural feature in the immediate locality in which it is situated. The church contains about 600 sittings. It is very tastefully finished, internally as well as externally. The architects were Messrs. Francis Brothers, and the builders were Messrs. Dove. The cost is defrayed by a fund raised chiefly through the instrumentality of the Incumbent designate, the Rev. J. M. Vaughan...At the luncheon given at the vestry-hall to the Bishop and a company of friends, Mr. Ayrton, M.P., bore his personal testimony to "the great and noble work" performed by Mr. Vaughan in this poor and very populous district of East London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.