page_title: Church of St John-at-Hackney
section_title: St Augustine's Church
hierarchical_section_title: Church of St John-at-Hackney / History / St Augustine's Church
caption_attribution_description: The Black and White House, rear view showing two gentlemen walking and the tower and part of the south wall of St John at Hackney church. Attributed to T.Fisher. Figures suggest that view is intended to be c 1750 but may well be c1790, before demolition of 1796. Watercolour. source The Learning Curve - Tudor HackneyThis is a photo of listed building number 1265635.
context_page_description: St John at Hackney is a Grade II* listed Anglican Church in the heart of the London Borough of Hackney with a large capacity of around 2,000. It was built in 1792 to replace Hackney's medieval parish church, of which St Augustine's Tower remains, at the edge of its churchyard. The church faces north towards Clapton Square, with the nearby Sutton House and Hackney Central station also accessible from the churchyard to the east and south, respectively.
  In 2018, St John at Hackney partnered with nearby St Luke's Homerton Terrace to form Hackney Church, and was designated a City Centre Resource Church. In the same year, St John at Hackney embarked on a multimillion-pound Restoration project, working with John Pawson and Es Devlin, among others. In 2019, the church will also open new community facilities in the adjacent Hackney Gardens development to enable it to grow its outreach work and community activity. The church also partners with the nearby Hackney Church Brew Co., whose profits help to fund the church's work with the homeless and vulnerable.
context_section_description: It is possible that a chapel stood here serving the small, prosperous manor of Hackney north of the City of London, before the Norman Conquest.  No records survive of a conceivable chapel before 1275 for a chapelry within the parish of Stepney which covered the 13km² of Hackney (see St Dunstan's, Stepney). From the 14th century the church was dedicated to Saint Augustine of Hippo until, in 1660, it was rededicated to Saint John the Baptist, thenceforth becoming commonly known as St John at Hackney.
  In the 13th century much of the land around Hackney formed part of the possessions of the Knights Templar. When the order was disbanded its possessions were passed to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, who had a mansion on Church Street. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries their lands passed to the Crown and were parcelled amongst Tudor nobles, including Thomas Sutton and Ralph Sadler.
caption: c.1750 View of St Augustine's Tower showing the (then) adjacent Black and White House
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