St John the Baptist, Hoxton

About

The Church of St John the Baptist, Hoxton usually known as St John's Hoxton, is an Anglican parish church in the Hoxton area of the London Borough of Hackney. Situated one mile north of the City of London on New North Road, nearby St John's Hoxton is Silicon Roundabout and also Aske Gardens, named after the parish's major benefactor, City haberdasher Alderman Robert Aske. In 1826, population growth in London's East End led to St John's being established as a chapel of ease, within the ancient parish of Shoreditch.

In 1830 it became the parish church of its own newly-created ecclesiastical parish within the diocese of London, though for civil purposes it remained part of Shoreditch, Middlesex. In 1953 the benefice of St John's Hoxton was reunited with Christ Church, created in 1841 from the north part of the parish.