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Christ Church is a Church of England church in Wanstead, east London. It was built as a chapel of ease to St Mary the Virgin , whose parish it still shares, to meet population expansion in the Snaresbrook area caused by the railway boom .
The parish is first recorded in 1208, but its medieval church was replaced 70 foot to the north by the present building between 1787 and 1790, [2] on a plot donated from his estate by James Tylney-Long. [3] It was designed by architect Thomas Hardwick.
A mass centre was opened in Wanstead in 1910 by the parish priest of Walthamstow. In 1918 it was transferred to the hall of the newly opened St. Joseph's convent school, Cambridge Park. Wanstead became a separate parish in 1919, and the church was opened in 1928, and completed in 1934–39.
It began in 1903 as an iron building before a permanent brick church by Charles Spooner in the Perpendicular iteration of the neo-Gothic style was completed in 1914, the same year as St Gabriel's was granted its own parish, taking areas from the parishes of St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead, and St Mary's Church, Little Ilford.
Wanstead United Reformed Church It was originally built as St Luke's Church, on a site in Euston Road, St Pancras, London, in 1856-61, to the design of John Johnson . In 1866-67, it was dismantled and re-erected in modified form on its present site, also to a design by Johnson, to make way for St Pancras Station .
The church of St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead was completed in 1790. It is now a Grade I listed building , and contains a large monument to Josiah Child . [ 10 ] It was followed in the 1860s by both the Anglican church of Christ Church and Wanstead Congregational Church .
A local board of health was set up for the parish of Wanstead in 1854. The Local Government Act 1894 reconstituted its area as Wanstead Urban District, governed by Wanstead Urban District Council. [2] Woodford parish adopted the Local Government Act 1858 in 1873, setting up a local board.
A list of Catholic churches in the United Kingdom, notable current and former individual church buildings and congregations and administration.These churches are listed buildings or have been recognised for their historical importance, or are church congregations notable for reasons unrelated to their buildings.