St Matthew City Road

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St Matthew City Road, the church of, is located in Finsbury (see St Luke Finsbury), on that street called City Road. The parish was built and commenced by the year 1848.

[Also known as St Luke, Middlesex, the church of, is situated on the north side and near the centre of Old Street, and owes its rise to the great increase of buildings in the parish of St Giles Cripplegate.

FINSBURY, one of the newly-enfranchised metropolitan boroughs, comprising parts of the Finsbury and Holborn divisions of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, with some places of exempt jurisdiction; the whole containing 265,043 inhabitants [as of 1848]. It sends two members to parliament, under the provisions of the Reform act: the right of election is vested in the £10 householders, and the returning officer is annually appointed by the sheriff.—See Islington, Clerkenwell, &c.

From: 'Finchampstead - Fishburn', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 235-238. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50963 Date accessed: 18 March 2010.