Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHRISTCHURCH

CHRISTCHURCH, an ecclesiastical parish and a sub-district in Marylebone parish and district, Middlesex. The parish lies in the western part of the Metropolis, NW of Cavendish-square, 3 miles W by N of St. Paul's; was constituted in 1823; and comprises the charges of Christchurch, Christ-Chapel, St. Paul, St. Mark, All Saints, St. Stephen, St. Matthew, St. Barnabas, and St. Cyprian, -the last two constituted in 1866. Christ-church living is a rectory, St. Mark, St. Stephen, St. Matthew, and St. Barnabas are vicarages, and the others are p. curacies, in the diocese of London. Value of Christ-church, £560; of St. Paul and St. Matthew, each £300: of St. Mark, £600; of All Saints, £400; of St. Stephen, £500; of St. Barnabas, £200; of St. Cyprian, £152. Patron of Christchurch, St. Mark, and St. Barnabas, the Crown; of St. Stephen, the Bishop; of All Saints, Col. Eyre; of the others, Trustees.—The sub-district is bounded on the N w and the N by a line drawn from the Edgeware-road to the end of Portland-place; and extends on the E and the W to the extremity of Marylebone. Acres, 518. Pop. in 1841, 28, 911; in 1861, 34, 913.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "an ecclesiastical parish and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: St Marylebone RegD/PLPar       Middlesex AncC

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