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St Paul's Church, Stratford

St Paul's Church, Stratford is a Church of England church in Stratford, London. It had its origins in a Sunday School opened in Stratford New Town by a City Missionary around 1850, for which a building was constructed on Queen Street by Samuel Gurney in 1853, within the parish of St John's Church, Stratford. St John's vicar William Holloway was ambivalent about the mission and so friction arose when the vicar of All Saints, A J Ram, bought a site for the mission to build a church, initially an iron hall in 1859 and a permanent church in 1864, both dedicated to St Paul. The latter was built with assistance from Thomas Fowell Buxton and Raymond Pelly. The permanent church was then assigned a separate parish in 1865, split from that of St John's. The church was destroyed by a V-weapon in 1945, but was replaced by a new building, consecrated in 1953. St Paul's parish opened a mission church of St Mark to provide services for factory girls, opening in 1877, building a permanent building in 1891, suffering bomb damage and finally being sold to the Methodist Church after 1945. Its parish is now known as 'St Paul and St James, Stratford', after the congregation of St James' Church, Forest Gate moved from St John's to St Paul's in 2014 (the former parish area of St James' instead moved to St Saviour's, also in 2014. References
St Matthew's Church, West Ham

St Matthew's Church is a Church of England church on Dyson Road in West Ham, east London. It originated in 1891 as a mission of All Saints Church, West Ham, designed to serve the area between West Ham Park and Romford Road. A permanent building was put up in 1896 and a separate parish formed the following year. It opened a mission of its own around 1900 in Vicarage Lane, which was destroyed by the London Blitz. References
St John's Church, North Woolwich

St John's Church, North Woolwich is a Church of England church in North Woolwich, east London. It also hosts a Roman Catholic congregation and so is sometimes known as St John with St Mary and St Edward, North Woolwich to include the dedications of this congregation's former churches. History Its first building was consecrated by Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester on 26 September 1872, initially as a mission church of St Mark's Church, Silvertown and Uppingham School and from 1877 as a parish church in its own right. It parish was formed from an area that originally been part of the main East Ham parish before being assigned to St Mark's between 1864 and 1877. The church building was destroyed on 7 September 1940, the first day of the London Blitz, leaving only the old Infants School Hall. The church used the school hall for worship until the consecration of a replacement on 28 October 1968 by John Tiarks, Bishop of Chelmsford - it had been built to a design by Laurence King and Partners. In 1974 St Mark's and St Barnabas' Church, West Silvertown (another former mission church of St Mark's) were declared redundant and their parishes merged with that of St John's (St Barnabas' had been administered by the vicar of St John's since 1945) - this formed the still-existent parish of North Woolwich with Silvertown, which is more or less co-terminous with the Royal Docks ward of Newham. References
The Economist Building

Das The Economist Building war das Redaktionsgebäude der britischen Wirtschaftszeitung The Economist. Das ab etwa 1960 projektierte und 1962–64 erbaute Gebäude der Architekten Alison und Peter Smithson ist eines der wichtigsten Gebäude der Nachkriegszeit und wegweisend für den Brutalismus. Das Hochhaus beherbergt außerdem ein Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut. Lage Das Bürogebäude liegt an der St. James Street. Diese zieht sich vom Piccadilly zum St James’s Palace. Die Straße ist von historischen Gebäuden des 18. Jahrhunderts geprägt. Architektur Der Komplex besteht aus drei Gebäuden, die als Stahlskelettbau ausgeführt sind. Direkt an der St. James Street steht ein viergeschossiges Bankgebäude, der eigentliche, 17-geschossige Bürobau ist zurückgesetzt. Das Gebäude hat eine Höhe von 53 Metern. Literatur Andres Lepik: Wolkenkratzer. Prestel Verlag, München 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3454-9. Weblinks Gian-Marco Jenatsch: Avantgarde, aber beständig. Zum Economist Building von Alison und Peter Smithson, London 1959-1964. (PDF) In: staufer-hasler.ch (Artikel aus bauen + wohnen, Heft 12/2010, S. 4–11). Abgerufen am 6. Juli 2025.
Economist Buildings

Economist Buildings eller Economist Building är ett kontorskomplex i stadsdelen St James's i City of Westminster i London, där bland annat tidningen The Economists huvudkontor ligger. Anläggningen utgörs av tre oktagonformade, tornliknande byggnader som upptar ett kvarter och bildar ett inre torgrum. Byggnaderna uppfördes 1962–64 och ritades av Alison och Peter Smithson. Förutom kontorsverksamhet återfinns en bank och en restaurang inom området och varje verksamhet har sin egen byggnad. Arkitekturen är klassicistiskt senmodernistisk med stora fönsteröppningar och fasader i portlandsten och betong, med accentuerade pelare, som bildar rumsskapande arkader vid torget. Arkitekternas intresse för den traditionella staden syns tydligt i den vikt som lagts på att anknyta till omgivningens 1700- och 1800-talsbyggnader samt den offentliga torgbildningen mellan byggnaderna. Denna topologiska hänsyn var inte alltid en självklarhet vid denna tid och projektet kom därför att flitigt uppmärksammas och inspirerade senare arkitekter inom postmodernismen. Källor Glancey, Jonathan, C20th century architecture, sid. 215, Carlton Books 1998, ISBN 1-84222-014-4 Maxwell, Robert, "New British Architecture", sid. 181-185, Thames and Hudson 1972 Noter
14 The Terrace, Barnes

14 The Terrace, Barnes is a Grade II listed house at The Terrace, Barnes, London SW13, facing the River Thames, built as one of a pair with No 13 in the mid-eighteenth century. Dame Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet, lived there from 1962 to 1982. A blue plaque is fixed to the front of the house. References External links Media related to 14 The Terrace, Barnes at Wikimedia Commons
St Alban's Church, Ilford

St Alban's Church, Ilford, is a Church of England church and parish in Ilford, part of the London Borough of Redbridge. It began as a temporary building, replaced by a permanent Neo-Gothic redbrick one on Albert Road built between 1900 and 1906. Both of these were chapels of ease to St Clement's Church, Ilford until the formation of a separate parish of St Alban's in 1958 It is now a Forward in Faith parish St. Alban's Singers, a choir for mixed voices (SATB), is based in the church. References
Barnwell East

Barnwell East is a 2.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Cambridge. It is owned and managed by Cambridge City Council. The site has woodland, a pond, scrub and grassland. Flora include blackthorns, hawthorns and bee orchids, there are birds such as blackcaps and willow warblers, and common blue and meadow brown butterflies. There is an entrance at the junction of Uphall Road and Nuttings Road. See also Barnwell West References
Beatrice Tate School

Beatrice Tate School is a coeducational special educational needs (SEN) school in Mile End for 11-19 year olds. The School was previously in Bethnal Green on St Jude's Road. It opened at its current site in 2013, named after a local politician, and was designed by Avanti Architects. It is located in Mile End, East London. References External links Official website Media related to Beatrice Tate School at Wikimedia Commons
Bedale Leech House

This late Georgian Bedale Leech House in Bedale, North Yorkshire, England, is a unique example of a building constructed to keep live medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) healthy prior to their sale by the local apothecary to doctors and private individuals for the purpose of blood letting as a medical procedure to cure or prevent a variety of illnesses and diseases. The Leech house The 'Leechery' is a small brick castellated structure, measuring 10.7 feet (3.25 m) by 10.1 feet (3.07 m), which stands on the east bank of the Bedale Beck. It was restored by the Bedale District Heritage Trust in 1985 and sits in a quarter of an acre of gardens known as the 'Bedale Renaissance Park' with an information board that explains its history and significance. It was built by an apothecary on the estate of the Beresford-Peirse family of Bedale Hall in the late 18th or early 19th century and was used for storing leeches until the early 1900s. Operation The leeches were kept in special containers of moist turf and moss and a flow of fresh water from Bedale Beck was diverted through the building. A fireplace provided heat to ensure the containers and the leeches within did not freeze in winter. Specialized and often very ornate 'Leech Jars' with a secure lid and small air holes were used for the storage of leeches in the apothecary's shop. Feeding was not usually necessary as leeches can survive for up to a year between meals. The leeches were collected using either horses or, frequently, the legs of the leech collectors themselves. A leech was removed after it had taken a full meal of blood. Bogs and marshes were the best collecting areas; the Lake District and Somerset Levels had particularly suitable sites. Women were particularly associated with collecting leeches and transporting them in small boxes or cages. It was not until 1835 that a method of breeding medicinal leeches was perfected in France; however, the British showed little interest in this, even though the native stocks were in decline or nearing extinction. George Thornton was the Bedale leech gatherer and was employed by Mr Bellamy, a local pharmacist or apothecary. Special pewter boxes were developed into which the leeches were placed once sold. The use of leeches in medicine reached a peak between 1825 and 1850 to the point that supplies became scarce and a secure place to store them before use became desirable. By the 1900s the use of leeches in medicine had dramatically declined and Bedale Leech House ceased to be used for their storage, though it was restored in 1985. In the same year as its restoration it was noted by Historic England as being a grade II listed building. See also Listed buildings in Aiskew and Leeming Bar References Sources Kirk, Robert & Pemberton, Neil (2013). Leech. Reaktion Books, Robinson, Tony. The Worst Jobs in History. Pan. ISBN 0-330-43857-3 External links "Bedale's Unique Medicinal Leech House"
Beechwoods

Beechwoods is a 9.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, south-east of Cambridge, England. It is owned by County Farms and managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Beeches were planted on chalky farmland in the 1840s, and medieval plough terraces are still visible. Birds include green and great spotted woodpeckers, and nuthatches. There is access from Worts' Causeway. References
Booth Wood Reservoir

Booth Wood Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies north of the M62 motorway and south of the A672 road near to Rishworth and Ripponden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was approved for construction in 1966 and completed in 1971. It supplies water to Wakefield. The reservoir dams the Booth Dean Clough watercourse and takes water directly from the surrounding moorland. It has a plain concrete crest on the dam head which is straight and extends to a length of 1,150 feet (350 m) and a height of 157 feet (48 m). In 1995 a long dry spell in the summer created a larger than normal abstraction of water from Booth Wood creating the need to transport water into the reservoir as stocks ran very low. Road tankers carrying fresh water were despatched from Selby in North Yorkshire and Kielder Water in Northumberland to bring water for offloading at Booth Wood. At the height of the operation, 700 tankers delivered 70,000 tonnes (77,000 tons) of water a day to the reservoir which then fed other reservoirs in West Yorkshire. On 14 August 2016, the A672 road which runs along the northern edge of the reservoir was closed whilst police searched for a driver and car that had plunged off the road and into the reservoir. The driver was believed to be the only person in the car and the search operation involved helicopters and underwater divers. The search resumed the next day when a man's body was recovered. References External links Aerial footage of Booth Wood and Scammonden
Chelmer Valley Riverside

Chelmer Valley Riverside is a 17.6 hectare Local Nature Reserve along the banks of the River Chelmer in Chelmsford in Essex. It is owned and managed by Chelmsford City Council. The northern end has the river, unimproved grassland, veteran hedges, scrub and woodland. The southern area is more managed, with mown grass as well as large trees and an area of marshland. Wildlife includes kingfishers, otters, mistletoe and pyramidal orchids. There are many access points, including Valley Bridge at the northern end and Victoria Road at the southern one. References
St Mary's Church, Bromley

St Mary's Church, Bromley is a Church of England parish church in what was the village of Plaistow in Bromley. It was consecrated in 1863 and enlarged three times between 1881 and 1900. Its churchyard closed for burials in 1893 when Plaistow Cemetery opened. In order to avoid confusion with churches of similar names it is sometimes called "St Mary Plaistow, Bromley". References
Crooked Billet, Wimbledon

The Crooked Billet is a pub at 14–15 Crooked Billet, facing onto Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, London. The building dates from the early 18th century and became the Crooked Billet during the 1750s. The district of Wimbledon called Crooked Billet may have taken its name from the pub. In 1888 Young's Brewery leased the Crooked Billet pub, and bought the freehold in 1928. In 1974 Young's Brewery purchased the nearby Hand in Hand. After the pubs were enlarged and refurbished, they were sold in 2006. The pubs are separated from the green. In Wright's Alley, ale was historically delivered to customers by Shire horses pulling brewer's drays. Along with the Hand in Hand, the Crooked Billet faces onto a small triangular green. Nearby can be found King's College School. Eagle House and Wimbledon House are also in the vicinity. The pub's cellars are said to be haunted by the ghost of an Irish woman. References Notes Citations External links Media related to Crooked Billet, Wimbledon at Wikimedia Commons Official website
St Michael and All Angels Church, Gidea Park

St Michael and All Angels Church is a Church of England parish church in the Gidea Park area of Romford, east London. The area had become a garden suburb in the 1910s and a church dedicated to St Michael was built there in 1928, as a mission church of the parish church of All Saints Squirrels Heath (now Ardleigh Green). Gidea Park was formed as an ecclesiastical district of its own in 1931 and a parish church commissioned from the architects Crowe and Careless. It was completed and consecrated on 21 May 1938, with the ecclesiastical district upgraded to a parish and the mission church building converted into the Bishop Chadwick Hall. References
St Alban's Church, Upton Park

St Alban's Church, Upton Park is a Church of England church in the Upton Park area of East Ham in east London, England, dedicated to Saint Alban. It was founded by St Stephen's Church as a mission church on Boleyn Road in the Upton Park area around 1889, replaced by a small brick church on Wakefield Street in 1897. It was given a parish of its own in 1903, in which year the nave and aisle of a new permanent church on the opposite side of the same street were completed. Vestries, a Lady Chapel and chancel were added in 1934. Damaged by the London Blitz in 1940, it was repaired in 1949 and now forms part of the East Ham Team Parish (also known as the Parish of the Holy Trinity) alongside St Mary Magdalene's Church, St Bartholomew's Church and St Edmund's Church. References
St Bartholomew's Church, East Ham

St Bartholomew's Church, East Ham is a Church of England church on Barking Road in East Ham, east London dedicated to Bartholomew the Apostle. It was built in 1902 to replace St John the Baptist's Church, which became its parish hall. Designed by Micklethwaite & Somers Clarke, it had a south aisle added in 1910. It was gutted by bombing in 1941 and a wooden hut was erected for worship within its shell, becoming known as 'St. Bartholomew-in-the-ruins', until it burned down in 1947. Services moved to the vestry then in 1948 to St John's Institute. The old church's south aisle was restored in 1949, followed by the rest of the church in 1953. It now forms part of the East Ham Team Parish (also known as the Parish of the Holy Trinity) alongside St Edmund's, St Mary Magdalene's and St Alban's. References External links Official website
St Edmund's Church, Forest Gate

St Edmund's Church, Forest Gate or the Church of St Edmund, King and Martyr, Forest Gate is an Anglo-Catholic church in the Forest Gate area of Newham, east London. It is dedicated to Edmund the Martyr. It originated in 1895 as the Red Post Lane mission district of All Saints parish. It became a parish of its own in 1901, with a permanent church completed in 1932. It now forms part of the East Ham Team Parish (also known as the Parish of the Holy Trinity) alongside St Mary Magdalene's Church, St Bartholomew's Church and St Alban's Church. References
St George and St Ethelbert's Church, East Ham

St George and St Ethelbert's Church, East Ham, is a Church of England church in East Ham, east London. St Mary Magdalene's Church, East Ham built a temporary mission hall known as St George's on the corner of Boston Road and Masterman Road by 1914, on a site bought on the Greatfield Estate around 1912. It became a parish of its own in 1923, though it took until 1936-1937 for a permanent church to be built, with more than 50% of the funding provided by the Diocese of Hereford, which requested the addition of St Ethelbert to the dedication - he is one of the two dedicatees of Hereford Cathedral, the other being the Virgin Mary. References
St Mark's Church, Forest Gate

St Mark's Church is a Church of England parish church in Forest Gate, east London. History It is sited on Lorne Road and originated as a mission church of Emmanuel Church. It was meant to serve the area between Wanstead Flats and the Romford Road and initially held services in a rented cowshed, until a site was acquired in 1888 for a permanent church, built in three stages between 1893 and 1898. This church was given a separate parish in 1894 by splitting off areas from Emmanuel and All Saints. Present day St Mark's stands in the evangelical tradition of the Church of England. References External links A Church Near You entry
St Martin's Church, Plaistow

St Martin's Church is a part of the Church of England on Boundary Road in Plaistow, Newham, East London. It was built in 1894 as a mission church, with the foundation stone laid on 28 June that year by Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (née Hope), Dowager Duchess of Newcastle and widow of the 6th Duke of Newcastle, who also funded the opening of St Thomas' Roman Catholic Church in Woodford the following year. Until 1997 its parish hall was in timber, with a World War Two bomb shelter attached - that year the firm Cottrell and Vermeulen refurbished the hall and added a community building and housing. With the three churches of St Mary's Church, Plaistow, St Matthias’ Church, Canning Town and St Philip and St James’ Church, Plaistow, it formed part of the Parish of the Divine Compassion until 19 October 2017. From October 2017 St Martin's became a separate parish for the first time in many decades. Rev Canon Ann Easter was ministry for the next two years, and on 2 May 2019 Rev Canon Jeanette Meadway became Vicar of St Martin's. In July 2019 regular Masses in Portuguese were started at St Martin's Church and in March 2021 regular Masses in Spanish were also started. References
St Mary's Church, Plaistow, Newham

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 A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1973; Pages 114-123 London Church Buildings - Plaistow External links Divine Compassion Parish website A Church Near You
St Matthias' Church, Canning Town

St Matthias' Church is a Church of England parish church in Canning Town, east London. The modern building comprises a chapel, community rooms and a home for residents with disabilities. History The origins of St Matthias Church in Canning town are found in 1887 with a gospel mission from St Mary's Church, Plaistow. It was named after St Matthias' Church in Torquay, which had assisted with funding the mission. In 1906 the mission merged with that of St Cyprian on Beaconsfield Road. In 1907 a permanent church building was built and a parish formed. This parish contained sections of the parish of St Mary's, St Andrew's and St Gabriel's. In 1961 parts of the parish of Holy Trinity and more from St Gabriel's were added. With the three churches of St Mary's Church, St Martin's, and St Philip and St James’, it formed part of the Parish of the Divine Compassion. By 1989 the original church building was demolished and replaced in 1991 by an integrated chapel, community rooms and home for residents with disabilities. Present day In 2016, St Matthias' Church received a planted congregation from neighbouring church All Hallows Bow at the invitation of the Bishop of Barking. All Hallows had itself been the recipient of a church plant project in 2010 involving St Paul's Shadwell (itself the recipient of one from Holy Trinity Brompton in 2005) and has since seen significant growth. Details of this can be found in a report by The Centre for Theology & Community entitled 'Love, Sweat and Tears: Church Planting in East London' References Sources A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1973; Pages 114-123 External links Official website
St Michael's Church, Romford Road

St Michael's Church is a Church of England parish church on the Romford Road in Manor Park, east London. It originated in an 1894 mission hall opened on the Romford Road by St Mary's Church, Little Ilford. Initially housed in an iron church, St Michael's moved into a red-brick permanent church by Charles Spooner whose nave and aisles were completed in 1898 and its chancel in 1906. St Michael's became a separate mission district in 1928 under a priest-in-charge, answerable to a bishop, before taking over as the area's parish church in 1939, with St Mary's as its chapel of ease. This Victorian building was later closed, demolished and replaced by a smaller church on the same site as part of the Froud Centre. It serves the parish of St Michael & All Angels, joint with St Mary the Virgin, Little Ilford. As of 2021, the parish priest is Father Lee Taylor. References