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The St Luke's Vestry was incorporated as local government body and appointed one member to the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed at a cost of £6,400 (equivalent to £715,801 in 2023) on the St Luke's Workhouse site in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch, fronting City Road.
St Luke's is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Islington. It lies just north of the border with the City of London near the Barbican Estate, and the Clerkenwell and Shoreditch areas. The area takes its name from the now redundant parish church of St Luke's, on Old Street west of Old Street station.
A local act in 1782 [a] enabled the St Luke's Vestry to build the new workhouse and offices just over the boundary in the parish of St Leonard Shoreditch at a cost of £2,000 (equivalent to £310,547 in 2023). [1] In 1867 a new vestry hall was completed on the site, fronting City Road. [2]
In 1862 St Leonard's parish was again divided to create the parish of "Shoreditch, St Michael". In 1866 a new parish of "Holy Trinity, Shoreditch" was formed from part of Saint Leonard's and part of neighbouring parish of Bethnal Green. In 1872 the parish of "Shoreditch, St Agatha" was created from part of Saint James, Curtain Road.
St Luke's, London, a district of London, UK; St Luke's, Old Street, church of the above parish; St Luke's Campus, part of the University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, England; St Luke's railway station, Southport, Merseyside, UK; St Lukes, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand; Westfield St Lukes, a shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand
St Luke's is a historic Anglican church building in central London, and in the London Borough of Islington.It served as a parish church from 1733 to 1959. It was designed by John James and Nicholas Hawksmoor, and is a Grade I listed building.
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields is an Episcopal church at 487 Hudson Street, between Christopher and Barrow Streets, in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The church was constructed in 1821–1822 and has been attributed to both John Heath, the building contractor, and James N. Wells.
Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney alongside neighbouring parts of Tower Hamlets, which are also perceived as part of the area due to historic ecclesiastical links. Shoreditch lies just north-east of the border with the City of London and is considered to be a part of London's East End.