Horsleydown St Mark, Surrey Family History Guide
Horsleydown St Mark was an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Surrey, created in 1844 from Southwark St John Horsleydown Ecclesiastical Parish. It dissolved in 1885.
Alternative names: Southwark St Mark Horsleydown
Parish church: St Mark
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Presbyterian, and Society of Friends/Quaker.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Southwark St Olave
- Southwark St John Horsleydown
- Tower of London, Middlesex
- Bermondsey St Mary Magdalen
- Bermondsey St Paul
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HORSLEYDOWN, a parish and a sub-district in Southwark-St. Olave district, Surrey.
The parish forms part of the metropolis; lies on the Thames below London bridge, near London bridge r. station; and has a postal pillar box under London, SE.
It was separated from St. Olave in 1732; it bears the name of H. ST. John; and it includes a chapelry constituted in 1844, and called H. ST. Mark. Acres, 69 of land, and 25 of water. Real property, £49,380. Pop. in 1861, 11,393. Houses, 1,445. Pop. of the part within H. St. Mark, 2,920. Houses, 369.
The living of St. John is a rectory, and that of St. Mark is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Winchester. Value of St. J., £350; of St. M., £130. Patron, of St. J., the Lord Chancellor; of St. M., alternately the Crown and the Bishop. The church of St. John was one of fifty new churches built about 1732; and it has the remarkable feature of a spire surmounted by an Ionic column.
The district workhouse is here; and, at the census of 1861, had 327 inmates. The subdistrict is conterminate with the parish.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Surrey
- Civil Registration District: St Olave Southwark
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Surrey
- Diocese: Post-1844 – London, Pre-1845 – Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Southwark
- Poor Law Union: St Olave
- Hundred: Southwark Borough
- Province: Canterbury