Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1899 — London Parishes. [ARTICLE]

London Parishes.

No. 11 Queen Victoria street (Mansion House Chambers), in the city of London, is situated in no fewer than six parishes, arising from the curious way in which the city parishes run into one another. There are several instances of buildings standing in four or three parishes, and at least one house is half in the city and half beyond its borders. The Bank of England, Threadneedle street, is in three parishes—St. Bartholomew, St. Christopber-le-Stocks and St. Margaret. The city of London, though only one square mile in area, has sixty parishes, none of them of very great dimensions, but some of an almost inconceivably small size. The parish of St. Mary Mounthaw, for instance, which has only six houses in ft, is the smallest parish in the city. This parish stands at the corner of Queen Victoria and Friday streets, and has not possessed a church since the great fire of London, in 1666, burned down the one it formerly had.