Arnold Bennett wrote his 1923 novel 'Riceyman Steps' about a secondhand bookshop owner in the fictional place based on Granville (now Gwynne) Place between King's Cross Road 'a hell of noise and dust and dirt' and Granville Square, Bennett's Riceyman Square which 'had once been genteel; it ought now to have been picturesque, but was not. It was merely decrepit, foul and slatternly'.

• Keywords
  CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHURCHES, CHILDREN, GEORGIAN PERIOD, SLUMS
• Geographical keyword
  GRANVILLE SQUARE, KING'S CROSS [Area], KING'S CROSS ROAD
• Persons keyword
  Arnold Bennett, Granville Square St Philip's Church