The church of Saint George is a religious building in the city of
Venice, located in the Dorsoduro district. It is the only existing
Anglican church in the city.
Sunday functions are assiduously
attended by the small but very active Anglican community, mostly made up
of English residents in Venice. Until around 2000, the English consulate
was in fact located a very short distance away, at the foot of the
Accademia bridge.
The church, located in Campo San Vio, was created in 1926 in the body of an ancient patrician palace, restructured and readapted for use, according to a project by the engineer Luigi Marangoni.
The entrance, facing the field, was obtained from the first arch of
the building's structure and consists of a simple bronze portal with a
semicircular cover in Istrian stone, surmounted by a statue of the saint
and a bas-relief depicting Saint George slaying the dragon.
The
portal is flanked by two side panels in bronze, also decorated in
bas-relief. The bas-reliefs are dedicated to the memory of the British
soldiers who fell in Italy during the First World War and are the work
of Napoleone Martinuzzi.