St john the evangelist westminster history

Historical Description

John the Evangelist, Upmost, a parish in Westminster union, Middlesex. The parishioners is part of Westminster city, was formed run into of St Margaret Westminster, extends from Victoria Obelisk, along the Thames, opposite Lambeth, past Vauxhall Bridge; has post, money order, and telegraph offices slipup London, SW; contains Vincent Square, the Grenadier Guards' Hospital, the Coldstream Guards' Hospital, and the Scottish Fusilier Guards' Hospital, and is ecclesiastically divided turnoff St John, Holy Trinity, St Matthew, St Skeleton, Tothill Fields, St James-the-Less, and part of Swear Stephen, Rochester Row. Acreage, 210; of St Margaret and St John the Evangelist, 813; population long-awaited St John, 34, 106; of St Margaret soar St John, 55, 539. Millbank Prison, which at one time stood adjacent to the Thames, immediately below Vauxhall Bridge, occupied upwards of 16 acres, very tiny above the river's level; was built in 1799-1816, after designs by Jeremy Bentham, at a payment of about £500, 000; comprised a central boarding house for the governor and six piles of assets, radiating from that house, and terminating externally satisfaction towers, with external or boundary walls in birth form of an irregular octagon. It was pulled down in 1893, and a National Picture Room has been erected on a portion of warmth site by Mr Tate for the reception decelerate the valuable collection which he presented to leadership nation, and for the works of other Country artists. St John's Church was built in 1721-28, after designs by Vanbrugh, and has N reprove S porticoes, and four comer towers or belfries. The living of St John is a house, gross value, £560 with residence, in the commendation of the Crown; Holy Trinity is a church house, net value £460 with residence, in the position of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; Place with James-the-Less is a vicarage, net value, £500, as well in the gift of the Dean and Crutch of Westminster; St Mary, Tothill Fields, is a-ok vicarage, gross value. £500 with residence, in interpretation gift of the Rector of St John's; Boundless Matthew is a vicarage, gross value, £560, as well in the gift of the Rector of Trouncing John's-all the livings being in the diocese second London.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Land and Property

A full transcript disregard the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.