A little noticed statue of St George and the Dragon in the City of London

Just behind St Bride’s Church in the City stands a large sculpture of St George and the Dragon, surrounded by an unmistakable air of neglect.Created by Michael Sandle, the work was commissioned by the Mountleigh Group for what, at first glance, looks like a quintessentially 1980s office block. In fact, the building was St Bridget’s House and built in the early 1950s and later reclad in the 1980s, when its main entrance was shifted from Bridewell Place to what had previously been a se