page_title: West Hackney
section_title: Chapel of ease
hierarchical_section_title: West Hackney / History / Chapel of ease
context_page_description: West Hackney is a district of the London Borough of Hackney in London, England. It lies 1.5 miles northwest of Hackney Central and 4.3 miles northeast of Charing Cross.
  The area was part of the Ancient Parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, but has come to be seen by many as an informal extension of Stoke Newington, as well as a sub-district of Hackney proper.
  There was formerly an electoral ward named after the area and there is an ecclesiastical parish of West Hackney, a sub-division of the wider Ancient Parish of Hackney. Despite these uses it has never been an administrative unit in its own right so lacks formal definition, except in that it takes Hackney's western boundary, the originally Roman A10 Stoke Newington Road, as its own western boundary. The core of the area lies between that road and the railway, but the area as a whole arguably extends further to the north-east.
context_section_description: The increasing population of the area saw it gain a chapel of ease in 1814, the church of St. James, designed by Robert Smirke in the Greek Doric style. The 1825 creation of the ecclesiastical parish of West Hackney saw St James elevated to the status of parish church.
  The church was destroyed by enemy action during The Blitz but replaced with a modern building in 1960 and rededicated to St Paul.
caption: West Hackney Church, on the junction of Amhurst and Stoke Newington Roads
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