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St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr (also known as St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr Queen Square) was a civil parish in the metropolitan area of London, that existed from 1767 to 1930. The four Inns of Court are all within the parish.
Reduced 1767: see St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr above both de facto largely replaced in 1855 by Holborn District. Remaining Below the Bars element gradually replaced in importance by Farringdon Without Ward of the City, de facto. De jure replaced as the whole of the City of London was constituted a civil parish 1907 ...
The Holborn District was created in 1855, consisting of the civil parishes and extra-parochial places of Holborn outside the city; St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr, Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place, as well as two tiny units that were added from the Finsbury Division: Glasshouse Yard and St ...
St Alban Wood Street; St Alphage Sion College (also known St Alphage London Wall) [5] St Andrew by the Wardrobe; St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars [notes 1] Created 1723 from the part of the parish of St Andrew Holborn within the city. (remainder, in Middlesex became St Andrew Holborn Above Bars) [5] St Andrew Hubbard (also known as St Andrew ...
The district was governed by the Holborn District Board of Works, which consisted of forty-nine elected vestrymen: twenty-four elected for the parish of St Andrew Holborn above Bars; nine for St George the Martyr; nine for Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents, and Ely Place; six for St Sepulchre and one for Glasshouse Yard. [5]
St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury; St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr; Liberty of Saffron Hill; Furnival's Inn (part) Gray's Inn; Lincoln's Inn; Staple Inn; In 1930 these seven were combined into a single civil parish called Holborn, which was conterminous with the metropolitan borough. [1]
The same statues from the Foundling Hospital located in Hatton Garden are above the side door of St Andrew Holborn. Thomas Coram is buried here, his remains were translated from his foundation in the 1960s. In 1741, the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram set up the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children in a house in nearby Hatton Garden.
In 1829 the Holborn Division contained the following "parishes, townships, precincts and places": The combined parishes of St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury; The combined parishes of St Andrew Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr; The liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place; The liberty of the Rolls