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The Church of St Andrew, Holborn, is a Church of England church on the northwestern edge of the City of London, on Holborn within the Ward of Farringdon Without.
Mar 7, 2024 · Guide to Holborn St Andrew, Middlesex ancestry, family history, and genealogy: Parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
An overview of the long and interesting history of St Andrew’s Holborn. Find out More. We hold no records of births, marriages or deaths on site. For family history or similar enquires contact the London Metropolitan Archives.
St Andrew Holborn was an ancient English parish that until 1767 was partly in the City of London and mainly in the county of Middlesex. Its City, thus southern, part retained its former name or was sometimes officially referred to as St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars.
Holborn. Greater London. EC4A 3AF. View map. The first mention of St Andrew Holborn comes in 959 AD, during the reign of King Edgar. A charter of Westminster Abbey alludes to an 'old wooden church' on the hill above the river Fleet. Little is known of the building’s early history.
Like many of London’s churches, St Andrew Holborn was damaged during the Second World War. On 16th April 1941, it was struck by an incendiary bomb and reduced to ruins. The job of rebuilding it fell to the distinguished ecclesiastical architects Seely and Paget.
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Apr 3, 2024 · Visiting St Andrew’s church Holborn. Published 3 April 2024 By Ian Mansfield Churches. This is a large and very noticeable church on the corner of Holborn Circus, but one that, for most of its life, people would have only seen the church tower poking above the buildings that once surrounded it.
