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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
The site selected on the east side of Mare Street had formed the nave of the Church of St Augustine which was built in the late 13th century and demolished in 1798. [2] The house was originally constructed in brick and completed in 1802. [3] It was then converted into a simple vestry office for the Parish of St John in the mid
The original town hall in Hackney was a private house, erected in Mare Street in 1802, which had been converted into a simple vestry office for the Parish of St John in the mid 19th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
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.
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 place name was first recorded in 1490, when Thomas Cornish, a London saddler, had a tenant there. [3]The hamlet was one of four small settlements within the Parish of Hackney, (Dalston, Newington, Shacklewell, and Kingsland), which were all grouped for assessment purposes, together having only as many houses as the village of Hackney.