Description: The Beasts of Bloomsbury follows the reinstatement of the Lions and Unicorns on the spire of St. George's, Bloomsbury, London. Harris Digital Productions was commissioned by the World Monuments Fund in 2004 – 2005 to record the carving and installation of these four gigantic beasts.
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The Restoration of the Lion and Unicorn Sculptures of St George’s, Bloomsbury
For many years, a masterpiece of English Baroque Architecture had languished forgotten and decaying in Central London. This is the Church of St George’s Bloomsbury , designed by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor in the early 18th Century.
Selected by the World Monuments Fund as one of the hundred most endangered sites of global architectural significance, money was raised for its restoration, principally as a result of a generous initial donation by the Paul Mellon Fund which funded the essential structural repairs.