St John the Evangelist - Broadway, Stratford, London, UK
N 51° 32.497 E 000° 00.175
31U E 292175 N 5714315
St John's Church has stood in the centre of Stratford since 1834 and is a landmark in East London, standing in the heart of Stratford.
Waymark Code: WMG6ZW
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/22/2013
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The Stratford 1886 Trade Directory [visit
link] tells us:
"St Johns is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1844
from the mother parish of West Ham; the church situated in the centre of town,
where the main road from the east of London diverges towards Romford and
Leytonstone: was built in 1834 as a chapel of ease to the parish of West Ham,
and became a parish church about 1859; it is a building of stone and brick in
the early English style, and was erected at a cost of £23,000; of which £18,000
was raised by subscription, and the remainder advanced on security of the rates;
the church consists of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower, containing
1 bell. The site was given by the late Lord Mornington, then Tylney Long
Wellesley Pole, esq. of Wanstead, and T Humphreys esq. , lords of the manor:
there are sittings for 1,000 persons. The register dates from the year 1859. The
living is a vicarage, so constituted in 1868, nett yearly value £310 in
the gift of the vicar of West Ham, and held since 1881 by the Rev Raymond Percy
Pelly, M A of Trinity College, Cambridge. The area is 301 acres; the population
in 1881 was 13,502."