Clerkenwell St James Pentonville Chapel, Middlesex Genealogy

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St James the Less or Pentonville Chapel was constructed by the year 1790. The [ancient] parish is ecclesiastically divided into St. James or Clerkenwell-proper [the mother parish], Pentonville [St James the Less], St. John, St. Mark, St. Philip, St. Silas, and St. Paul. Value of St. James, £350; of Pentonville, £300; of St. John, £300; * of St. Mark, £535; of St. Philip, £348; of St. Silas, £250; of St. Paul, £200. Patrons of St. James, the Inhabitants; of Pentonville, the Vicar of St. James; of St. John, the Lord Chancellor; of St. Mark and St. Silas, the Bishop; of St. Philip, the Vicar of St. Mark; of St. Paul, alternately the Crown and the Bishop. St. James' church was built in 1788-1792.

{Adapted from: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales by John Marius Wilson; published 1869]