St James' Church, Forest Gate was a church in
Forest Gate
Forest Gate is a district in the London Borough of Newham, East London, England. It is located northeast of Charing Cross.
The area's name relates to its position adjacent to Wanstead Flats, the southernmost part of Epping Forest. The town ...
, east London. Its origins lay in an iron building constructed around 1870 to serve a
conventional district. A parish was formed for it in 1881 from those of
Emmanuel Church,
All Saints and
St John's and its permanent church completed the following year, with an organ moved from St Matthew's Church, Friday Street. The church was demolished in 1964 and for two years its congregation worshiped in the Durning Hall Community Centre's chapel until the parish was merged with that of St John's. A new church was built for the St James' congregation at northern end of St James Road in 1968. The congregation finally moved to
St Paul's Church, Stratford in 2014, though the area that had formerly been St James' parish was instead transferred from St John's to
St Saviour's the same year.
Football team
A football club, St James' (Forest Gate), possibly a church side, entered the
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...
in
1885–86. The club scratched after being drawn to play the
Old Harrovians
The following is a list of some notable Old Harrovians, former pupils of Harrow School in the United Kingdom.
Politicians, civil servants, and royalty Civil servants, intelligence officers, and police
*Sir Alex Allan (born 1951), Chairman of ...
. There are very few records of any matches for the club, and its other recorded competitive fixtures were in the much lower-key East End Junior Cup or the
Essex County Challenge Cup;
as it did not enter the
London Senior Cup
The London Senior Cup is the County Senior Cup of the London FA. The London Senior Cup was first won by Upton Park in 1882. Although the leading professional sides in London no longer compete, the Cup has been won in the past by the likes of Ar ...
, it is possible the club entered the FA Cup instead of it by mistake.
References
James
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
James
James is a common English language surname and given name:
*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
James or James City may also refer to:
People
* King James (disambiguat ...
1882 establishments in England
1966 disestablishments in England
19th-century Church of England church buildings
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