03-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Visiting St Andrew’s church Holborn

This is a large and very noticeable church on the corner of Holborn Circus, but one that, for most of its life, people would have only seen the church tower poking above the buildings that once surrounded it.There’s been a church on this site for over 1,000 years, with the first reference — to a wooden church on the hill — dating to either 951 or 959. It survived the Norman Conquest but was handed to St Paul’s Cathedral on the provision that it provided twelve pence per y
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