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St Mary, Priory Road, Kilburn

On the corner of Abbey Road and Priory Road a little way east of the High Road. It was designed by F. & H. Francis and built 1857-62. The east window is by Clayton and Bell, much other glass was lost in WW2 but windows from the redundant All Souls, Loudon Road have been reset in some of the space left.

                          

St Stephen, Westbourne Park Road, Westbourne Park

On an island site, designed by F. & H. Francis 1855-56. The apse and porches were added in 1900 by W. Bassett Smith. There used to be a spire.

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St Saviour, Northumbria St, Poplar (former) now housing

Designed by F.J. and H. Francis and built in 1873-74, made redundant in 1976 but burnt out in 2007. It remained as a shell on the edge of Bartlett Park when I visited in 2013. A repeat visit in 2025 found it converted into housing. Applications for new surrounding housing and conversion of the church were made in 2013 but work does not seem to have started until around 2019/2020.

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2013 Derelict post fire

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St Mary, Cable Street, Shadwell

By Frederick J. Francis from 1848-50. A prominent spire amongst the housing. The interior is only viewable from the west door and a small enclosed narthex.