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Chapel, Queens Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford
On the first floor, overlooking the atrium, of this modern hospital. It is a small irregularly shaped room with an altar and some coloured glass in the only windows. The hospital was built between 2004-2006 and was designed by Jonathan Bailey Associates.
St. Thomas Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Taunton Road, Harold Hill
Originally Harold Hill Baptist Church, it was bought and converted by the JSO and opened in October 2018. Owing to multiple sets of railings around the locked grounds the foundation stone image is a not terribly good montage.
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Our Lady of La Salette, Rainham (Roman Catholic)
A large A framed building of 1966-67 by John Newton of Burles, Newton and Partners.
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St Alban, Kings Road, Romford
A small suburban church of 1890, which hides inside a large amount of late twentieth and early twenty first century art.
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Christ the Eternal High Priest, Brentwood Road, Gidea Park (Roman Catholic)
A parish founded in 1963. but the church is by Lanner of Wakefield dating from 1974. Since my first visit in 2013, some of the furnishings such as the altar and pews have been changed.
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Interior images from 2013 below |
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Corpus Christi, Lowshoe Lane, Collier Row (Roman Catholic)
Designed By W.C. Mangan and built in 1964-65. The interior features a large amount of Goddard & Gibbs stained glass.
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St James, Chase Cross Road, Collier Row
A hall/church built 1954-1956 well east of Collier Row town centre.
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St Cedd (former), Sims Close, Romford
A hall just outside Romford town centre formerly owned by the Royal Association for Deaf People, which has been used for Anglican worship in the past. By 2019 it had become a day nursery
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St Augustine, Birkbeck Road, Romford
Built in 1958 south-west of Romford town centre. The architect seems unrecorded.
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St Matthew, Chelmsford Drive, Hornchurch
In suburbia south of the District Line, a hall/church built in 1956.
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London Churches in photographs 