St Sepulchre (parish)

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: The ecclesiastical version today covers essentially the same land plus an extension to the south-east.

The church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate was established, probably in the early 1100s,[1] immediately to the west of Newgate, one of the gates in London's Wall.

[8] The City’s warped local limit, partially covered by Smithfield Market, has been rationalised to follow Charterhouse Street.

The civil parish of St Sepulchre without Newgate was part of the Farringdon Without Ward of the City of London.

The ecclesiastical (Church of England) parish has all the names, reflecting this division then re-merger: St. Sepulchre with Christ Church Greyfriars and St. Leonard Foster Lane[9] The civil parish of St Sepulchre Middlesex was part of the Ossulstone Hundred, and later the Finsbury Division, of Middlesex.

[9] The very slight loss of parish land affects a strip leading towards and particularly a parcel close to Barbican tube station.

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