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Since around the year 1100, Kingsbury's parish church had been St Andrew's, in the south of the parish. By the 19th century, most of the population of the parish was now in the north of its area, around Kingsbury Green and The Hyde, and in 1883 the incoming vicar of Kingsbury (Rev. Lambart Edwards) proposed building a church there. He raised funds by subscription, and All Souls’ College donated a site on the brow of the hill in Kingsbury Road. In April 1884 Holy Innocents’ was consecrated as Kingsbury’s new parish church. Around ten years later a bell tower was added, and this can be seen in the attached photograph, taken around 1900, along with the vicarage (see separate note) and one of the gas street lights which had recently been installed. '