Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea

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The Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1900 and 1965. It was created by the London Government Act 1899 from most of the ancient parish of Chelsea. It was amalgamated in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, with the Metropolitan Borough of Kensington to form the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Ecclesiastical parish

The ancient parish, was originally dedicated to All Saints, but by the late 17th century it had been rededicated to St Luke. It was in the Diocese of London. In 1824 a new parish church was built in the center of the parish, it was also dedicated to St Luke and the original parish church became a chapel-at-ease known as All Saints, Chelsea or Chelsea Old Church. From 1831, as the population of Chelsea increased, a number of new parishes were formed:

• Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea in 1831
• St Saviour, Upper Chelsea in 1840
• St Jude, Upper Chelsea in 1844, (merged into Holy Trinity, Upper Chelsea in 1892)
• All Saints, Chelsea (Chelsea Old Church) voluntarily took care of certain streets from 1855, became a separate parish in 1951
• Park Chapel, Chelsea Park in c.1855, (renamed Emmanuel, Chelsea Park in 1906; then St Andrew, Chelsea Park in 1912)
• St Simon Zelotes, Upper Chelsea in 1859
• Christ Church, Chelsea in 1860
• St John, Chelsea World's End in 1877
• In the detached part of Chelsea parish, around the hamlet of Kensal Green (Kensal Town), a number of new parishes were also formed:[3]
• St John the Evangelist, Kensal Green in 1845 with parts of Kensington, Paddington, Hammersmith and Willesden
• St Luke the Evangelist, Kensal Green in 1877 with parts of Holy Trinity, Kilburn
• St Jude, Kensal Green in 1879