The Advent Service at St George’s, Hanover Square, is on 1st December, and Fellow Gastronome and Rector Roderick Leece will be taking the service. All Gastronomes are welcome. If you would like to read the Epistle, please let the President know by this Monday.

On Sunday, December 15th, there will also be the Traditional Nine Lessons and Carols, followed by bubbly refreshments. It starts at 6 pm, and all Gastronomes Are welcome.

Some history of the church from a Ianvisits blog

This is a circa 300-year old church built as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London but was built before the parish it would serve had been created

General William Steuart donated the site for the church. He owned the land after he inherited it from his father, who had accepted the land from King Charles II in repayment of debts. The foundation stone was laid in June 1721, and the church was built to a design by the architect John James. However, due to complaints about the slow progress of the work, in January 1725, just a few weeks before the church was completed, the mason in charge, Joshuah Fletcher, was sacked.

The church was formally completed and consecrated as St George’s Hanover Square in March 1725