Finsbury Circus

Finsbury Circus is an oval space in the City of London, north of London Wall. In the middle of the square is a 2.2 ha is big and registered in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens public park. Due to construction of the new, here guided underground railway Crossrail the park since March 2010, however, for about seven years largely inaccessible.

The Finsbury Circus was built in 1814 on the site where previously the Bethlem Royal Hospital had stood. The place is conveniently moderately developed from three feeder roads from the east, south and west. At the eastern entrance to the place were located opposite two churches: the Finsbury Chapel and the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields, was buried in the tomb of Carl Maria von Weber from 1826 until his transfer to Dresden in 1844.

Since, according to the Reformation of the 16th century in England within the city walls ( the "wall " ) from London only the Church of England was allowed to entertain churches, the area around Finsbury Circus was up to the entering end of the 19th century decline of the resident population of the neighborhood in favor of commercial settlements is a preferred place of settlement of other faiths. During the 19th century were on the verge of the circus or to the immediately surrounding these streets the Presbyterian Albion Chapel, a Unitarian church, a church of Welsh Baptists, a church of a spin-off from the Presbyterian church ( Finsbury Chapel ) and the Roman Catholic Church St Mary Moorfields, also still a synagogue. Of all these churches exist today only, after construction of a smaller church building on Eldon Street, the Church of St Mary Moorfields.

In the 19th century the Finsbury Circus was also a preferred place of settlement of the medical profession. From 1823 to 1899 was located in the immediate vicinity of the square, next to the church of St Mary Moorfields on Blomfield Street, a predecessor institution of Moorfields Eye Hospital.

In the second half of the same century had the French Consulate General in the UK its registered office at 38, Finsbury Circus.

Since 1925 located in the Park features a bowling green. It is the only of the City.

The square forms with parts of the adjacent streets the historic preservation district called Finsbury Circus Conservation Area. This is bounded by the streets of London Wall in the south, Moorgate in the West, Eldon Street to the north and Blomfield Street to the east.

St Mary Moorfields

Finsbury Chapel

Albion Chapel

Unitarian Chapel

London institution