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St Mary's Church, Bromley St Leonard's. St Mary's Church, Bow was a Church of England parish church in Bromley St Leonard's in east London. 'Bromley St Leonard's' was split from the parish of Stepney in 1536, reusing the priory church from the recently dissolved St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery. [1] It contained significant monumental ...
For historical reasons, the Anglican churches in London north of the Thames but east of the River Lea fall within the Diocese of Chelmsford, and those in the London Boroughs of Bexley and Bromley fall within the Diocese of Rochester. As London expanded during the early 19th century, many new churches and chapels were built independently by the ...
St Mary's Church, Bromley is a Church of England parish church in what was the village of Plaistow in Bromley. [1] It was consecrated in 1863 and enlarged three times between 1881 and 1900. [ 2 ] Its churchyard closed for burials in 1893 when Plaistow Cemetery opened. [ 3 ]
Bromley, also known as Bromley St Peter and St Paul, formed an ancient parish in the Bromley and Beckenham hundred and the Sutton-at-Hone lathe of Kent. [10] In 1840 it became part of the expanded Metropolitan Police District. The parish adopted the Local Government Act 1858 and a local board was formed in 1867.
St Peter and St Paul is a church in the town of Bromley, Borough of Bromley, in south east London. Known familiarly as Bromley Parish Church , it is not far from Bromley High Street and approximately halfway between Bromley North and Bromley South railway stations.
In the 1880s there was already a worshipping congregation in the Bromley South area, and there had been talk for some years of building a local church. In 1884, the then vicar of St Peter and St Paul, Bromley, Reverend A. G. Hellicar, had received the gift from Samuel Cawston, a local man, of an iron church with furniture and fittings. This ...
St Mary's Church, Bromley St Leonard's. The priory was destroyed during the first phase of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, along with many other smaller religious house. Its books were moved to Westminster Abbey to join the library for the new Diocese of Westminster and the church retained to form a new parish church. [7]
The Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed church in Orpington, Bromley, London. [1] [2] History. ... All Saints', the Parish Church of Orpington, ...