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The church of St John at Hackney was designed by James Spiller and built in 1792, [1] when demand in the parish of Hackney was in excess of 3,000 parishioners. At an original 3,300 acres (13 km 2), at the time the parish was the largest civil parish in Middlesex of those which joined the County of London (created in 1889). [2]
It is all that remains of the original medieval parish church, which was demolished in the late 18th century (September 2005). Hackney was a parish in the historic county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney was built in 1792, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to St Augustine (pulled
Hackney: Hackney Hackney 198,606 Hammersmith: None (Vestry) Fulham 97,239 Hampstead: None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 68,416 Holborn, St Andrew Above the Bars with St George the Martyr: Holborn Holborn 26,228 Horsleydown, Southwark St John: St Olave St Olave 9,812 Islington: None (Vestry) None (Poor Law Parish) 319,143 Kensington: None (Vestry)
The metropolitan borough was almost coterminous with the ancient parish of Hackney. Statistics were compiled by the London County Council in 1901 to show population growth in London over the preceding century. The area of the borough in 1901 was 3,289 acres (13.3 km 2). The populations recorded in National Censuses were: Hackney Vestry 1801–1899
The district comprised the civil parishes of Hackney and Stoke Newington. [1]Under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 any parish that exceeded 2,000 ratepayers was to be divided into wards; as such the parish of St John at Hackney within the Hackney District Boards of Works was divided into seven wards (electing vestrymen): No. 1 or Stamford Hill (15), No. 2 or West (18), No. 3 or De Beauvoir ...
The parish church of St John-at-Hackney was built in 1792, replacing the nearby former 16th-century parish church dedicated to St Augustine (pulled down in 1798). Notable residents from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries included Robert Aske, William Cecil, Samuel Courtauld, Samuel Hoare, Joseph Priestley and Thomas Sutton.
The Church of St John the Baptist, Hoxton, usually known as St John's Hoxton, is an Anglican parish church in the Hoxton area of Hackney, London N1. [2]Nearby is Silicon Roundabout, [3] and also Aske Gardens, [4] named after the parish's major benefactor, City alderman and haberdasher Robert Aske.
Hackney was a sub-Manor of the Manor of Stepney, and the ancient parish of Hackney was an early daughter parish of Stepney, though the date the Hackney parish was established is not known. Hackney's church is first recorded around 1275 and Hackney may have been an independent parish by that time. The parish would have been based on the ...