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on the northwestern edge of the
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, on
Holborn Holborn ( or ), an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn (parish), St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Wards of the City of London, Ward of Farringdon Without i ...
within the Ward of
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.


History


Roman and medieval

Roman pottery was found on the site during 2001/02 excavations in the
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. However, the first written record of the church itself is dated as 951 (DCCCCLI) in a charter of
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, referring to it as the "old wooden church", on top of the hill above the
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. The Charter's authenticity has been called into question because the date is not within the reign of the King
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who is granting it. It may be that this is simply a scribal error and that the date should be '959' (DCCCCLIX). A 'Master Gladwin', i.e. a priest, held it after the
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and he assigned it to
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, but with the proviso that the
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be granted at 12 pence a year to the
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's, St Saviour's foundation of what was to become
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. This assignment dates between 1086 and 1089. In about 1200 a deed was witnessed by James, the Parson, Roger, his chaplain, Andrew, the Deacon and also Alexander his clerk. In 1280 one Simon de Gardino bequeathed funds towards the building of a belfry, it is assumed this would be stone and that there were due to be bells to be cast for it. In the
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the church is referred to as St Andrew Holburnestrate and later simply as St Andrew de Holeburn. In 1348, John Thavie, a local armourer, "left a considerable Estate towards the support of the fabric forever", a legacy which survived the
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, was invested carefully through the centuries, and still provides for the church's current upkeep. In the 15th century, the wooden church was replaced by a medieval stone one. On 8 July 1563, during a severe storm, the steeple of the church was struck and badly damaged by lightning. After being executed by hanging for the crime of serving at a Catholic Mass, St. Swithin Wells was buried in the churchyard on 10 December 1591.


16th to 18th century

The medieval St Andrew's survived the 1666
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, saved by a last minute change in wind direction, but was already in a bad state of repair and so was rebuilt by
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anyway. In what is his largest parish church, he rebuilt from the foundations (creating the present crypt) and gave the existing medieval stone tower (the only medieval part to survive) a marble cladding. Its rector from 1713 to 1724 was
Henry Sacheverell Henry Sacheverell (; 8 February 1674 – 5 June 1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon. He was subsequently impeached by the House of Commons and ...
, who is buried beneath the church's
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. In 1741, the
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set up the
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for abandoned children in a house in nearby
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. The following year, the charity moved to new premises in
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and remained there until 1935. The church of St George the Martyr Holborn was built between 1703 and 1706, as a chapel of ease for the parish. It became a parish church in its own right in 1723. On November 1, 1799,
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married
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at the church.


19th century

In 1808, writer
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married Sarah Stoddart, with
Charles Lamb Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his '' Essays of Elia'' and for the children's book '' Tales from Shakespeare'', co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764 ...
as his
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, and
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as a
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. The twelve-year-old
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, the future
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, was received into the Christian Church in 1817. It was on the church's steps in 1828 that the surgeon William Marsden found a homeless girl suffering from hypothermia, and sought help for her from one of the nearby hospitals. However, none would take her in, and she died in Marsden's arms; the horror of the experience inspired him to establish the
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for the poor and destitute. Today the hospital is located in Hampstead. In the mid-19th century, the Holborn Valley Improvement Scheme bought up the church's North Churchyard. Many of the bodies were re-interred: some in the crypt, and others at the
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in
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(the latter also being the destination for the bodies from the crypt when it was cleared in 2002–2003) to make way for the
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, linking Holborn with
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, which was opened by
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in 1869. As part of this improvement scheme the church received compensation to replace its assets, and the Gothic architect
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was commissioned to build a new rectory and courthouse on the south side of the church – this now operates as the offices for the foundation, the associated charities and the Archdeaconry of Hackney, as well as the rectory and the conference rooms. Teulon incorporated into the courtroom, the building's main room, a 17th-century fireplace. This was from the 'Quest Room' for the 'below Bars' part of the parish, i.e. that lies outside the city boundary, sited as part of a block of buildings in the middle of the main street. This block was removed as part of the Holborn Viaduct improvements and explains why Holborn is so wide at this point. In
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's ''
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'' Bill Sykes looks up at this church's tower (an episode referenced by
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in ''
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'', though from where her character stands such a view is almost impossible). In Dickens' ''
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'', Mr Snagsby's deceased partner, Peffer, is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's.


20th century to present

During the
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, on the night of 7 May 1941, the church was bombed and gutted by
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bombs, leaving only the exterior walls and tower. However, instead of demolition which sometimes occurred in similar cases, it was decided after a long delay that it would be restored "stone for stone and brick for brick" to Wren's original designs. The church was designated a Grade I
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on 4 January 1950. The church contains stained glass and a mural – depicting the Holy Spirit as a dove – by Brian Thomas. In 1955, the Foundling Hospital, which had originally been founded in St Andrew's parish, sold its premises at
Ashlyns School Ashlyns School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. The school was established in 1935 as the final location of the Foundling Hospital, a children's charity founded in London in 1739. The B ...
in
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,
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. It was decided to transfer a number of items from the Hospital chapel in Berkhamsted back to London, including the mortal remains of Thomas Coram, the Hospital founder, which were exhumed and placed in a tomb in St Andrew's. The casing of the
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, which had originally been given to the Foundling Hospital by
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, was also dismantled and installed in St Andrew's, along with the
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and the
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. The church re-opened in 1961 as a non-parochial Guild Church intended for serving the local ''working'' rather than ''resident'' community which had declined as had the City's population as a whole. In January 2005 a new large
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was installed, made for the site by the Monastic Family Fraternity of Jesus in Vallechiara. The church runs a selection of recitals and lectures, as well as weekly services and evening concerts. In August 2010, St Andrew Holborn's Icon Cross became motorised, allowing the large icon of Jesus on the Cross to be raised and lowered for services. In September 2017 controversy occurred when a
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show which took place at the church included runway models sporting satanic images and symbols.


Rectors of St Andrew Holborn

* 1439–1447† Gilbert Worthington * 1447–1478† William Grene * 1478–1531 Ralph Gartside * —— * 1584–1597
Richard Bancroft Richard Bancroft (1544 – 2 November 1610) was an English churchman, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 and "chief overseer" of the King James Bible. Life Bancroft was born in September 1544 at Farnworth, now part of Widnes, Ch ...
(Bishop of London 1597, Archbishop of Canterbury 1604) * 1597–1611 John King (Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 1605, Bishop of London 1611) * 1611–1624† Gregory Ducket (Librarian of Cambridge University) * 1624–1662
John Hacket John Hacket (Born Halket) (1 September 1592 – 28 October 1670) was an English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry from 1661 until his death. Life He was born in London and educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. On ...
(Archdeacon of Bedford 1631, sequestered 1645, restored, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry 1661) * 1662–1664† James Lamb * 1664–1665† John Taylor * 1665–1689
Edward Stillingfleet Edward Stillingfleet (17 April 1635 – 27 March 1699) was an English Christian theologian and scholar. Considered an outstanding preacher as well as a strong polemical writer defending Anglicanism, Stillingfleet was known as "the beauty of ho ...
(Dean of St Paul's 1678, Bishop of Worcester 1689) * 1689–1691 John Moore (Bishop of Norwich 1691, Ely 1707) * 1691–1713
Thomas Manningham Thomas Manningham (1651?-1722) was an English churchman, bishop of Chichester from 1709. Life He was born about 1651 in the parish of St. George, Southwark, the son of Richard Manningham (d. 1682), rector of Michelmersh, Hampshire, and grandson ...
(Dean of Windsor 1709, Bishop of Chichester 1709) * 1713–1724†
Henry Sacheverell Henry Sacheverell (; 8 February 1674 – 5 June 1724) was an English high church Anglican clergyman who achieved nationwide fame in 1709 after preaching an incendiary 5 November sermon. He was subsequently impeached by the House of Commons and ...
* 1724–1734† Geoffrey Barton (brother of Cutts Barton) * 1734–1780†
Cutts Barton Cutts Barton (1706–1780) D.D. was an English cleric, Dean of Bristol from 1763 to 1780. Life He was the son of Geoffrey Barton, vicar of Rushton, Northamptonshire. He attended Oundle School, and was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1724, ...
(Dean of Bristol 1763) * 1780–1806† Charles Barton (son of Cutts Barton) * 1806–1815
John Luxmoore John Luxmoore or Luxmore (1766–1830) was an English bishop of three sees. Life The son of John Luxmoore of Okehampton, Devon, he was born there. He was educated at Ottery St. Mary school and at Eton College, going as a scholar in 1775 to King' ...
(Bishop of Bristol 1807, Hereford 1808, St Asaph 1815) * 1815–1819† Thomas George Clare * 1819–1838 Gilbert Beresford * 1838–1850 John Travers Robinson * 1850–1857 Jonathan James Toogood * 1858–1899† Henry George Scawen Blunt * 1899– —— Dacre Craven * 1917–1937 Edwin Curtis Bedford † ''Rector died in post''


Organ

The organ in St Andrew's is a 20th-century instrument in an 18th-century casing. It was built by
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in 1989 and is mounted in the west gallery. The upper part of the organ casing incorporates the original casework from the 1750 organ built for the Foundling Hospital chapel in Bloomsbury to a design by Handel. In 1935 it was installed in Ashlyns School chapel in Berkhamsted before being dismantled and re-installed in St Andrew, Holborn.


Organists

*
Daniel Purcell Daniel Purcell (c. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717) was an English Baroque composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell. Biography Like Henry Purcell before him, Daniel Purcell joined the choir of the Chapel Royal at about the age ...
1713–1717 (younger brother or possibly cousin of the composer
Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version o ...
* Maurice Greene 1717–1718 * John Isham 1718–1726 * John Stanley 1726–1786 (organist at St Andrew's from the age of 14, replaced Handel as a governor of the Foundling Hospital after Handel's death (thus continuing the tradition of performing the Messiah for the Hospital) and died near the church in Hatton Garden)"Notes on Old City Churches: their organs, organists and musical associations" Pearce, C.W. London, Winthrop Rogers Ltd 1909 * James Evance 1786–1811 * John Grosvenor 1811–1814 * J. Reynolds c. 1828–1867 *
James Higgs James Higgs (1829 – 26 April 1902) was an English organist and teacher, and the uncle of Henry Marcellus Higgs. Life and career James Higgs was born in Lambeth in 1829. He studied under his father, an amateur of ability. He succeeded the late ...
1867–1895 * Harold Phillips 1896–1903 * F. G. M. Ogbourne 1903–1925 (formerly assistant organist of the
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, (
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) * W. Glanville Hopkins 1925–1942 (formerly organist of
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, afterwards organist of
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, Kensington) * Ida Maude Hopkins 1942– * Stuart Hutchinson *
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Notable interments

* Ralph Rokeby (died 1596) *
John Gerard John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated ''Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes'', first published in 1597, became a popular garde ...
(c. 1545–1612) *
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(c. 1598–1679) *
Swithun Wells Swithun Wells (c. 1536 – 10 December 1591) was an English Roman Catholic martyr who was executed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, Elizabeth I. Wells was a country gentleman and one time schoolmaster whose family sheltered hunted p ...
(c. 1536–1591) * William Stanton (1639–1705) *
Thomas Coram Sea captain, Captain Thomas Coram ( – 29 March 1751) was an English sea captain and philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children on the streets of London. It is ...
(c. 1668–1751)


Notable weddings

*
Marc Isambard Brunel Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (, ; 25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-American engineer active in the United States and Britain, most famous for the civil engineering work he did in the latter. He is known for having overseen the pr ...
and
Sophia Kingdom Sophia Kingdom (15 February 1775 – 5 January 1855), later known as Lady Brunel, was the mother of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Her father was William Kingdom, a contracting agent for the Royal Navy and the army, and her mother was Joan Spry. While ...
(1799) *
William Hazlitt William Hazlitt (10 April 177818 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary criticism, literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history ...
and Sarah Stoddart (1808)


See also

*
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List of Christopher Wren churches in London Sir Christopher Wren was 33 years old and near the beginning of his career as an architect when the Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed many of the city's public buildings, including 88 of its parish churches. Wren's office was commissioned to ...


Notes


External links


Official website of St. Andrew, Holborn
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360 panorama inside St Andrew, Holborn
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