Memorial Community Church

The Memorial Community Church is a Baptist church in Plaistow, Newham, east London. Neo-Byzantine in style, it is grade II listed.[1]

History

It was founded in 1871 as the West Ham Central Mission and its present building opened in 1922.[1] Designed by William Hayne, its construction had taken 15 months, costing about £60,000. It was dedicated to men from the local community and the congregation who had died in World War One, with the names of 169 such men cast into the bells in the east tower in 1925.

References

"History - About - Memorial Community Church - Plaistow, London E13". www.memorialcc.org. Retrieved 6 May 2019.

External links

'West Ham: Roman Catholicism, Nonconformity and Judaism', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London, 1973), pp. 123-141

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[history-1] "History - About - Memorial Community Church - Plaistow, London E13". www.memorialcc.org. Retrieved 6 May 2019.