 In 1849, the 17th century woodwork was sympathetically augmented and adapted by W. Gibbs Rogers.In 1904 the church's parish was united with that of St George Botolph Lane, and St Mary-at-Hill received the sword rests, plate, royal arms, ironwork, organ and organ case from St George.In 1939, the writer Dornford Yates used the church as a setting for some of the action in his thriller "Gale Warning", calling it “St.