St Sepulchre (parish) facts for kids

St Sepulchre was an ancient parish which always had its southern part within the City of London but its northern part outwith. The more popular terms used flexibly for this area (and outskirts) are Smithfield, Farringdon and Clerkenwell.

This meant for civil uses (foremost of which are the charitable works led by its priest or its patron then from the Tudor reforms its vestry, then for some decades after secularist reforms, the waning system of civil parishes) it was divided into:

• St Sepulchre without Newgate in the Farringdon Without Ward of the City of London
• St Sepulchre Middlesex, a smaller zone, to the north, in Middlesex, from the modern boroughs' creation in 1965, part of the London Borough of Islington.

The ecclesiastical version today covers essentially the same land plus an extension to the south-east. It has one designated church, which is referred to as Holy Sepulchre London.

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, in the City of London. The church is just to the west of the former Newgate, literally a new gate in the city wall and which served the national arterial road to and via Oxford.

St Sepulchre Middlesex as part of the short-lived Holborn District (Metropolis), shown in green

The extramural City parish of St Sepulchre without Newgate, in the west of the City of London

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St Sepulchre, City of London

St Sepulchre, Middlesex