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Holloway in Middlesex County England History and GeographyHOLLOWAY, a district in the parish of ISLINGTON, Finsbury division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 3 miles (N.) from London. The population is returned with the parish. The village is divided into two parts, Upper and Lower Holloway, divided into two parts, Upper and Lower Holloway, consisting principally of detached houses, many of which are handsome buildings, extending along the great north road from London to Liverpool. The place appears to have derived its name from being situated in the hollow way, or vale, between Islington and Highgate. The village is lighted with gas, and supplied with water by the New River Company: it is within the jurisdiction of the court of requests held in Kingsgate-street, Holborn, for the recovery of debts under 40s.; and also under the superintendence of the New Police. A new church, dedicated to St. John, and situated at Upper Holloway, was completed in 1828, at an expense of £11,890. 7. 8., defrayed partly by a grant from the parliamentary commissioners, and partly by a rate on the inhabitants: it is in the decorated English style, with a square tower at the west end: the interior is handsomely fitted up, and lighted with gas; and it contains one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two sittings, of which seven hundred and fifty-three are free. The living is a district incumbency, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of London, concurrently with the Bishop, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Islington. At Lower Holloway is a chapel of ease to the vicarage of St. Mary's, Islington, which was consecrated in August, 1814, having been erected at an expense (including the site, and a cemetery of five or six acres) of about £32,000, under the authority of an act of parliament passed in 1811, authorising the trustees to raise by annuities £30,000: it is a large edifice, with a square tower at the west end: the interior is neatly ornamented, and over the altar is a modern painting of the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene. Here is a place of worship for Independents, to which is attached a Sunday school. At Upper Holloway is a National school for boys; there is another for girls belonging to Highgate and Holloway, and also an infant school. Near Highgate archway, but within the limits of Upper Holloway, is situated Sir Richard Whittington's college, or almshouse, originally founded in the parish of St. Michael, Paternoster, London, pursuant to a bequest by Sir Richard Whittington, Knt., alderman and thrice lord mayor of London, who, in 1421, left the residue of his estate, after the payment of debts and legacies, to executors, for the purpose of erecting and endowing almshouses for thirteen poor people, under the conservancy of the Mercers' Company: the funds having received very considerable additions from various benefactors, the conservators, in 1824, erected the present college at Holloway, at an expense of nearly £20,000: it is a handsome edifice in the later English style, consisting of a front and wings, with a chapel in the centre; and the grounds before it are tastefully laid out, and planted with flowering shrubs and evergreens: there are tenements for twenty-nine alms-women, who, at the time of admission, must be widows, or spinsters, not less than fifty-five years of age, and not possessing property to the amount of £30 per annum., which sum each of them receives as a pension from the charity. At Upper Holloway was born, in 1649, Sir Thomas Pope Blount, Bart., author of 'Censura Authorum Celebriorum,' and other learned works; also, in 1654, his brother, Charles Blount, who became noted as a deistical writer, and who, in August 1693, shot himself in a fit of phrenzy, occasioned by a disappointed attachment to the sister of his deceased wife. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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