St John’s Wood All Saints Middlesex Family History Guide

St John’s Wood All Saints is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1846 from St Marylebone Ancient Parish; located on Finchley Road.

Alternative names: St John

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1845
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

JOHN’S WOOD (ST.), a metropolitan suburb and three chapelries in Marylebone parish, Middlesex.

The suburb lies between the Regent’s Park and the Edgware road, near the Northwestern railway, on the Metropolitan and St. John’s Wood railway, 3½ miles NW of St. Paul’s; occupies ground which belonged to St. John’s priory, Clerkenwell: is a fashionable quarter, with well-built airy streets and places; has post-offices under London NW, and a police station; and contains three churches, several dissenting chapels, the Congregational new college, the Clergy orphan school, Lord’s cricket ground, and parks.

Christ chapel, the oldest of the three churches, was built in 1814; is in the Ionic style, after designs by Hardwicke; and contains many monuments, some of which are by Chantrey or by Wyatt.

St. Mark’s church was built in 1847, at a cost of £9, 830 after designs by Cundy.

The Congregational new college was formed in 1850, by the junction of Coward and Homerton colleges with Highbury college; is an edifice in the late perpendicular style, after designs by Eminett; trains young men for the Christian ministry, through a curriculum of five years; and, in 1864-5, had an income of £4, 176.

The Clergy orphan school, at the census of 1861, had 84 inmates; and the barracks had 172.

The chapelries are Christ Chapel, All Saints, and St. Mark. The first has no definite limits; the second was constituted in 1846; and the third was constituted in 1850. Pop. in 1861, of All Saints, 5, 481; of St. Mark, 4, 756. Houses, 845 and 698. Two of the livings are p. curacies, and St. Mark’s a vicarage, in the diocese of London. Value of Christ chapel, not reported; of All Saints, £400; of St. Mark, £600. Patrons of Christ chapel, Trustees; of All Saints, Col. Eyre; of St. Mark, the Crown.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Middlesex, St. John’s Wood – Directories ( 2 )
Kelly’s directory of Marylebone & St. John’s Wood
Author: Kelly’s Directories

Kelly’s directory of Marylebone & St. John’s Wood
Author: Kelly’s Directories

England, Middlesex, St. John’s Wood – History ( 1 )
Saint John’s Wood : its history, its houses, its haunts and its celebrities
Author: Eyre, Alan Montgomery

Administration

  • County: Middlesex
  • Civil Registration District: Marylebone
  • Probate Court: Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of London (London Division)
  • Diocese: London
  • Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
  • Poor Law Union: St Marylebone
  • Hundred: Ossulstone (Holborn Division)
  • Province: Canterbury