St Clement's Church, Ilford was a

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church on Park Avenue in Ilford in the

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. It was built between 1889 and 1896. The land for the building was donated by Mrs Clement Ingleby of Valentines and the building designed by Cutts Brothers. Initially a

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, it replaced it as the parish's main church in 1902. Its vicar was appointed by

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. It was demolished in 1977. For four and a half years from 1912, the church's curate was

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, who went on to be a missionary in Burma (now

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) and invented

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