place

The George, Fitzrovia

Buildings and structures completed in 1860FitzroviaGrade II listed pubs in LondonGrade II listed pubs in the City of WestminsterItalianate architecture in England
London building and structure stubs
George, Fitzrovia, W1 (2366919487)
George, Fitzrovia, W1 (2366919487)

The George is a grade II listed public house on the corner of Mortimer Street and Great Portland Street in the City of Westminster, London. According to Historic England, it has an Italianate façade from the 1860s and a more ornate frontage than typical of a pub of its age. The interior is also notable for its surviving ornate original features which include glasswork, panelling, and painted tiles depicting riders and dogs.On November 25, 2021, The George was reopened by JKS Restaurants in partnership with Dominic Jacobs and James Knappett after four years of closure and an extensive restoration.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article The George, Fitzrovia (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

The George, Fitzrovia
Mortimer Street, City of Westminster Fitzrovia

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: The George, FitzroviaContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 51.51765 ° E -0.14185 °
placeShow on map

Address

The George

Mortimer Street
W1W 7LQ City of Westminster, Fitzrovia
England, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
thegeorge.london

linkVisit website

linkWikiData (Q27087166)
linkOpenStreetMap (148695430)

George, Fitzrovia, W1 (2366919487)
George, Fitzrovia, W1 (2366919487)
Share experience

Nearby Places

Queen's Hall
Queen's Hall

The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principal concert venue. From 1895 until 1941, it was the home of the promenade concerts ("The Proms") founded by Robert Newman together with Henry Wood. The hall had drab decor and cramped seating but superb acoustics. It became known as the "musical centre of the [British] Empire", and several of the leading musicians and composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries performed there, including Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss. In the 1930s, the hall became the main London base of two new orchestras, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. These two ensembles raised the standards of orchestral playing in London to new heights, and the hall's resident orchestra, founded in 1893, was eclipsed and it disbanded in 1930. The new orchestras attracted another generation of musicians from Europe and the United States, including Serge Koussevitzky, Willem Mengelberg, Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Felix Weingartner. In 1941, during the Second World War, the building was destroyed by incendiary bombs in the London Blitz. Despite much lobbying for the hall to be rebuilt, the government decided against doing so. The main musical functions of the Queen's Hall were taken over by the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms, and the new Royal Festival Hall for the general concert season.