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St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.Historically the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends from Regent's Park and Primrose Hill in the east to Edgware Road in the west, with the Swiss Cottage area of Hampstead to the north and Lisson Grove to the south.
St John's Wood Church is an Anglican parish church in St John's Wood, London. Built in the classical style, the Grade II*-listed church [2] is situated on Lord's Roundabout, between Lord's Cricket Ground and Regent's Park in the Deanery of Westminster St Marylebone. [3] The parish is under the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Charing Cross. [4]
This is alternatively the northern half of Marylebone, excluding the long dissociated St John's Wood, especially in station-centric terms common in the 21st century. Well within these borders is Marylebone station. In oldest terms Marylebone was the medieval parish, see map at Ossulstone. It forms six ecclesiastical (Anglican) parishes today ...
The St John's Wood Chapel. In 1898, the St John's Wood Chapel became a chapel of ease to Christ Church, Marylebone. [18] In 1932, the Rector of Christ Church moved from Christ Church House into St John's House and increasingly the parish appears to have been administered from there. [8]
The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry, and then became part of the County of London in 1889.
St Marylebone Church. The Ancient Parish's church, St Marylebone Parish Church, has been rebuilt several times at various locations within the parish. The earliest known church dedicated to St John the Evangelist was established by Barking Abbey, which held Manor of Tyburn, at an unknown date, but probably sometime in the 12th century. [15]
St John's Wood roundabout, top of Park Road 51°31′48″N 0°10′04″W / 51.530°N 0.1679°W / 51.530; -0.1679 ( St Marylebone War 1935 c. 1935
In 1903 the Home for Female Orphans [19] was on the corner of Lisson Grove and St John's Wood Road. In November 1906 Henry Sylvester Williams (b.1867 – d.1911), a Trinidadian lawyer and anti-slavery and civil rights campaigner, was elected to the St Marylebone Borough Council for Church Street Ward as the first black councillor in what is now ...