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Rivergate Church, Minter Road, Barking Reach, Barking

Serving the new, and still being constructed Barking Riverside development on the banks of the Thames on the former Barking power station site. It is an Anglican church, spun off from All Saints, Woodford Wells. It shares a building with a CoE primary school, among other facilities.

St Bede, Bishops Avenue, Chadwell Heath (Roman Catholic)

Dating from 1963 by Purcell and Johnson in a neat group with the hall and presbytery.

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St Mark, Marks Gate, Chadwell Heath

A small church on an estate on the north site of Chadwell Heath. It dates from 1956.

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Hartley Brook Church, Dagenham

A small hall down a dead end street, a chapel of ease to St Mary, Becontree.

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St John the Divine, Goresbrook Road, Dagenham

Nominally an Anglican church but seemingly mainly used by The Redeemed Christian Church of God. It dates from 1986.

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St Anne, Woodward Road, Dagenham (Roman Catholic)

A chapel of ease to St Thomas Moore dating from 1958.

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St Thomas Moore, Longbridge Road, Barking (Roman Catholic)

A couple of kilometres north west of Barking town centre, a church of 1991 by Gerald Murphy of Burles, Newton and Partners added on to an older building of 1935.

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St Mary and St Ethelburga, Linton Road, Barking (Roman Catholic)

Close to the town centre by John Newton of Newton, Burles and Partners and dating from 1979 replacing a 19th century church.

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St Peter, Werrington Road, Becontree (now Forward in Faith Ministries International)

Built as a temporary Anglican church by Edward Meredith in 1931. The brick built east end was added in 1958-59 and designed by J.J. Crowe. It was made redundant and taken over by the Zimbabwean Forward in Faith Ministries International.

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St Cedd, Lodge Avenue, Becontree

By Thompson & Whitehead, dating from 1964. It replaced a church built in the 1930s.