St. John's Hoxton

This patronage results from the former Jones Lectureship Charity. In 1866 the site of three houses owned by the Charity was required for the construction of a new road running from the Embankment to Mansion House in the City of London. The Charity was expanded to include three parishes, which received substantial grants from the payment received for the site.

St. John the Baptist, Hoxton, London, N1
 
Incumbent: The post is presently vacant.
To contact St John's Church: telephone 020 7739 9302
To contact the Partnership: telephone 020 7729 7719
 
St John's was built in 1826, and is the only church of Francis Edwards, Sir John Soane's foremost pupil. In Victorian London it won a name for its welfare work in a deteriorating inner city environment. To give opportunities to the local poor the first vicar founded what became London's largest savings bank, and St John's National Schools, which survive to this day. From its huge Sunday Schools the church sent many missionaries to Africa and the Far East, amongst them the first Bishop of Chota Nagpur, The Rt Revd Jabez Cornelius Whiteley, whose father was the chaplain of the Haberdashers' Aske's Hospital School in Pitfield St.
 
Today St John's embraces an international community of more than 20 nationalities, and continues its local community welfare work. NEWPIN, a parent and child support network, ACCESS, an employment training initiative, and ABILITY, a gymnasium specially equipped for people with disabilities, all operate from within the church premises, supported by the church's Shaftesbury Society Community Worker.
 
Sunday Services are at 10.15 am and 6.30 pm