Little Dorrit’s Church
The church has strong associations with Charles Dickens, whose father was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea prison. The surviving wall of the prison adjoins the north side of the churchyard.
Dickens himself lived nearby, in Lant Street, lodging in a house that belonged to the Vestry Clerk of St George’s. This was during the darkest period of his life when, as a teenager, with his father in prison, he had to work in the `blacking factory’, and his literary career must have seemed an impossible dream.
Later, he was to set several scenes of the novel Little Dorrit in and around St George’s Church. There is a small representation of Little Dorritt in the east window of the church, and we welcome members of the Dickens Fellowship to an annual service.
