Islington St Stephen, Middlesex Genealogy: Difference between revisions

ISLINGTON (St. Stephen), a&nbsp;'''parish''', in the parliamentary borough of Finsbury, Finsbury division of the hundred of Ossulstone, county of Middlesex, 1½ mile (N.) from London. Built as a '''chapel of ease''' in 1839, and dedicated to St. Mary. There are places of worship for '''Independents, Wesleyans, Presbyterians, and Baptists''', one for a '''congregation''' professing the principles of the late Edward Irving, and a spacious '''Roman Catholic chapel'''.<ref>Samuel A. Lewis, [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51065#s8 ''A Topographical Dictionary of England.'']&amp;amp;amp;nbsp; Adapted. Date accessed: 6 February 2014.</ref>  

<br> St Stephen Islington, also called Portland Place Church, was built as a chapel of ease in the year 1839, within the civil parish boundaries of [[Islington St Mary, Middlesex|St Mary Islington]]. It was later renamed Islington St Stephen in 1849.