St Barnabas' Church, Woodford Green, is a

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church in Snakes Lane East,

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. It had its origins in a 1904 iron mission church – this was attached to St Paul's Church, Woodford. A permanent church was built between 1910 and 1911, with a

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, organ chamber, chancel and two bays of an aisled nave – the nave was completed in 1964. The church was designed by E T Dunn, who also designed

St Luke's Church, Ilford St Luke's Church, Ilford, is a Church of England parish church in Ilford, east London. It is dedicated to Saint Luke. It originated as a temporary mission built in the parish of St Clement's in 1909. E T Dunn designed its permanent stone and ...

, and produced a proposed design for a new chapel screen at St Peter's Church, Bethnal Green. Parts of the parishes of St Paul's, All Saints Church, Woodford Wells, and Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford, were combined to form the new parish of St Barnabas in 1911.

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Barnabas Barnabas (; arc, ܒܪܢܒܐ; grc, Βαρνάβας), born Joseph () or Joses (), was according to tradition an early Christian, one of the prominent Christian disciples in Jerusalem. According to Acts 4:36, Barnabas was a Cypriot Jew. Name ...

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