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 Emmanuel Church - Romford Road, London, UK
N 51° 32.768 E 000° 01.579
31U E 293817 N 5714751
Emmanuel church, built in Revival Gothic style, was constructed in 1852 to the designs of the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church stands at the junction of Romford Road and Upton Lane in Forest Gate in east London.
Waymark Code: WM13Z3A
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/17/2021
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Wikipedia
has a brief article about the church that tells us:
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Emmanuel Church, Forest
Gate is a Church of England church in Forest Gate, east London.
It was built in the Decorated Gothic variant of the neo-Gothic
style in 1852 to designs by George Gilbert Scott and a new
parish formed for it from parts of All Saints Church, West Ham
and St Mary Magdalene's Church, East Ham. A north aisle was
added in 1890. Bomb damage from the London Blitz was repaired.
It was Grade II listed in 1984.
The church also set up the mission churches of St Saviour's
Church, Forest Gate in 1880 and St Mark's Church, Forest Gate
(which gained a permanent building between 1893 and 1898 and a
parish of its own (using parts of the parishes of Emmanuel and
All Saints) in 1894. In 1881 part of its parish was joined with
parts of those of All Saints Church, West Ham and St John's
Church, Stratford to form a parish for St James' Church, Forest
Gate.
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The church is Grade II listed with the entry at the
Historic England website advising:
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Church 1852. Sir George
Gilbert Scott. Decorated Gothic style. Kentish ragstone. Tiled
roof to eaves. No clerestory. Perpendicular north aisle of 1890,
the same height and width as original nave. Short tiled broach
spire over chancel arch. Lady Chapel to south side balances
organ chamber to north. Lean-to south aisle. South porch. Aisles
are buttressed. Low turretted north transept. Vigourously
foliated columns to 6-bay nave arcading.
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The British
History website further tells us:
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The church of EMMANUEL,
Forest Gate, Romford Road, was opened in 1852, and in the same
year a separate parish was formed from parts of West Ham (All
Saints) and East Ham, the advowson being vested alternately in
the vicars of those two parishes.
The building, erected at the expense of the Revd. T. Cornthwaite,
was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott in the Decorated style, using
Kentish ragstone. By 1889 it had been slightly enlarged and in
1890 the north aisle was rebuilt on a larger scale in the
Perpendicular style, forming a second nave with a new porch and
choir vestry.
The church suffered bomb damage during the Second World War, but
was repaired. Parts of the parish were transferred to those of
St. James (1881), St. Saviour (1884), All Saints, Forest Gate
(in East Ham) (1886), and St. Mark (1894).
About 1893 ritualism at Emmanuel caused some of its members, led
by a churchwarden, to secede and form a Free Church of England
in Earlham Grove. In 1962 the parish of St. Peter was united
with that of Emmanuel, the advowson being vested in the bishop.
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