St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Newham
Church of england church
The Victorian building of St Mary's Church, Plaistow
St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Plaistow in the (East-) London Borough of Newham. With the three churches of St Matthias’, St Martin's, and St Philip and St James’, it formed part of the Parish of the Divine Compassion. Its Victorian building, designed by Sir Arthur William Blomfield in 1890-1894, was demolished in 1976. They now worship in a smaller church built in 1981.
It was built as a chapel of ease to All Saints Church, West Ham, then the only parish church in the area. It was promoted to a parish in its own right in 1844. The site was granted by Sir John H Pelly and the church designed in the neo-Gothic style influenced by the late Perpendicular style by Thomas Curtis. Notable among its vicars was Thomas Given-Wilson, who raised is capacity to 1,000 through a comprehensive rebuild. The parish also built several mission churches - St Peter's, Upton Road (1880s), St Katherine's on Chapman Road (1891; replaced by a permanent church in 1894; demolished 1965), St Thomas' on Northern Road (1898-1950) and St Matthias' Canning Town (1887).
Sources
External links
|
---|
ancient parish churches (pre-1800) | |
---|
Anglican daughter churches |
- St Alban, Upton Park
- All Saints, East Ham
- St Andrew, Plaistow
- St Andrew, East Ham
- Ascension, Victoria Docks
- St Barnabas, West Silvertown
- St Barnabas, Manor Park
- St Bartholomew, East Ham
- St Cedd, Canning Town
- Christ Church, Stratford
- St Edmund, Forest Gate
- Emmanuel, Forest Gate
- St Gabriel, Canning Town
- St George and St Ethelbert, East Ham
- Holy Trinity, Canning Town
- St James, Forest Gate
- St John the Baptist, East Ham
- St John, North Woolwich
- St John, Stratford
- St Katherine, Plaistow
- St Luke, Canning Town
- St Mark, Forest Gate
- St Mark, Victoria Docks
- St Martin, Plaistow
- St Mary, Plaistow
- St Matthew, West Ham
- St Matthew, Custom House
- St Matthias, Canning Town
- St Michael and All Angels, Beckton Road
- St Michael's, Romford Road
- St Michael's, Rutland Road
- St Paul's, Stratford
- St Paul's, East Ham
- St Peter's, Upton Cross
- St Philip & St James, Plaistow
- St Saviour, Forest Gate
- St Stephen, East Ham
- St Thomas, West Ham
- St Thomas, Plaistow
|
---|
Roman Catholic churches | |
---|
Baptist churches | |
---|
51°31′54.171″N 0°1′28.834″E / 51.53171417°N 0.02467611°E / 51.53171417; 0.02467611
|
|