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St Edmund King and Martyr, Katherine Road, East Ham

The vicarage of a former church, adapted by APEC in 1988 into a community centre with a tiny chapel in the front room. Cottrell & Vermeulen added the roadside features to make it more church like in 1993-94.

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St Michael and All Angels (Former), Rutland Street, East Ham now St Lazarus and St Andrew Greek Orthodox

Built as an unusually styled anglican church by E Douglas Hoyland in 1910-12 but now Greek Orthodox.

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St Alban (Former), Wakefield Street, East Ham

Built in 1980 but now used as a nursery but still appently owned by the Church of England.

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St Paul, Burges Road, East Ham

In a residential area, a church of 1933 by Charles Spooner joined to a mission church of 1907, now a hall, by a foyer of 1993 by Raymond Hall.

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St Bartholomew, Newham

East Ham’s town centre church. It is part of a multi purpose centre by APEC dating from 1979-85. The font is from the previous church on the site.

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St Michael, Tilbury Road, East Ham (Roman Catholic)

Designed by A.J. Newton of Newton and Burles and built in 1959, in a quiet street near Central Park.

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St George and St Ethelbert, Burford Road, East Ham

Deep in residential East Ham a brick church of 1935-37 by Newberry and Fowler inspired by Hereford cathedral and partly paid for by that diocese.

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St Mary Magdalene, East Ham

In essence a small norman church but after considerable neglect it was restored by J.T. Micklethwaite 1891-96 and several times subsequently. It is over a mile south of the town centre and the churchyard, which is very large is now a formal nature reserve.

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