Soho: Charing Cross Road

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of Soho with this look at Charing Cross Road and St Mary the Virgin's Church:

Charing Cross Road follows very nearly the course of the old Hog Lane, later Crown Street, which bounded the parish on the east.

St. Mary the Virgin's Church is on the west side, and the building has had many vicissitudes.

In 1677 it was erected by the Greek congregation in Soho, and had the distinction of being the first church of that community in England.

It was afterwards used by a French Protestant community, and then by a body of Dissenters.

In 1849 it stood in imminent peril of being turned into a dancing-saloon, but was rescued and became Church of England.

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