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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. [1]
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.
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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.
• St Andrew Holborn was an ancient parish that until 1767 was partly within the City of London and partly in Middlesex, England. • In 1723 part of the Middlesex section of the parish became St George the Martyr.
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.
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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.
