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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.
Initially meeting at Andover Place, in Maida Vale, in a part of the building that once formed the Bayswater Synagogue, [1] the congregation subsequently moved its services to the site of the St John's Wood (United) Synagogue, and in 2018 plans were made to merge the two congregations. [10]
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (Hebrew: קהל קדוש לב חדש, romanized: Qahal Kadosh Lev Chadash, lit. 'Holy Congregation New Heart'), abbreviated as LJS, is a Liberal Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in St John's Wood, in the City of Westminster, London, England, in the United Kingdom.
The Abbey National Building Society (now Santander UK) was founded in 1874 as The Abbey Road & St John's Wood Permanent Benefit Building Society in one Baptist Church on Abbey Road. Abbey Road street sign. EMI's Abbey Road Studios is located at the southeastern end at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood.
New London Synagogue is a Masorti Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in St John's Wood, in the City of Westminster, London, England, in the United Kingdom.. The congregation was founded in 1964 by followers of Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, following the "Jacobs Affair" in which Rabbi Jacobs was refused employment in the United Synagogue due to alleged heresy.
The Anglo-French Art Centre (or Anglo-French Art School, previously the St John's Wood Art School, was an art school at 29 Elm Tree Road in St John's Wood, north London, England. The centre was founded in 1946 by Alfred Rozelaar Green , who studied in Paris at the Académie Julian and Atelier Gromaire before the Second World War . [ 1 ]
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.
New College, St John's Wood, London. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing after B. Sly, 1851 New College London (1850–1980) (sometimes known as New College, St John's Wood , or New College, Hampstead ) was founded as a Congregationalist college in 1850.