No. 40 St. Margaret & St. John Westr. Volunteer

Name: No. 40 St. Margaret &amp; St. John Westr. Volunteer
SKU: BL40
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St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

The first reprints of the 1798 aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson (published by Rudolph Ackermann) published in 1972 by Hugh Evelyn Limited.
Image size is 20.5 x 25.5 cm [8” x 10”] against a light greyish orange background (c. RGB fcf2e1) impressed on medium high white matt cartridge paper of c. 120 g/m².
Print size: c. 26.2 x 33.7 cm [17” x 12 ¾”] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Details of London Wards and Parishes provided by © the British Library
We offer thanks to the Trustees of the British Library and British Museum and Wikipedia for some text (and map outlines
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SKU: BL40 Categories: London Infantry Volunteers, The London Volunteers, Uniform

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Plan of the parishes of St Margaret’s, outlined in blue line, and St James’, delineated in pink, Westminster. A thin red line shows the boundary of the Tothill Fields District. The large 6-petal structure depicted at lower left is Millbank Penitentiary, built in response to requests for prison reform and finally completed in 1821. From a Survey made by I.H. Taylor. No. 22 PARLIAMENT STREET 1828. From the Crace Collection of Maps at the British Library; Copyright © The British Library Board.

St Margaret was an ancient parish in the City and Liberty of Westminster and the county of Middlesex. It included the core of modern Westminster, including the Palace of Westminster and the area around, but not including Westminster Abbey. It was divided into St Margaret’s and St John’s in 1727, to coincide with the building of the Church of St John the Evangelist, constructed by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches (The Queen Anne Churches) in Smith Square to meet the demands of the growing population, but there continued to be a single vestry for the parishes of St Margaret and St John. This was reformed in 1855 by the Metropolis Management Act, and the two parishes formed the Westminster District until 1887. St Margaret and St John became part of the County of London in 1889. The vestry was abolished in 1900, to be replaced by Westminster City Council, but St Margaret and St John continued to have a nominal existence until 1922.