Wanstead United Reformed Church - August 2018

Wanstead United Reformed Church is a

United Reformed Church The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. As of 2022 it has approximately 40,000 members in 1,284 congregations with 334 stipendiary ministers. Origins and history The United Reformed Church resulte ...

place of worship in Wanstead, east London. It originated in 1867 as a Congregational church in Wanstead, housed in the former Church of England building of St Luke's Church, Euston Road, which was completed in 1861 by John Johnson and soon afterwards demolished for the building of the original

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and re-erected piece by piece in Wanstead). (The Anglican church's dedication transferred to the new Anglican church of St Luke's Church, Oseney Crescent.) It was designated as a Grade II

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in 2009.

St Luke's Church, Euston Road

St Luke's Church, Euston Road () was a

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parish church on the Euston Road in St Pancras, London. It was designed by John Johnson, also one of the architects of

St Paul's Church, Camden Square St Paul's Church is a church dedicated to Paul the Apostle on Camden Square in Camden, north London. It is called St Paul's because the estate was owned originally by the canons of St Paul's Cathedral. It was built in 1849 to designs by Fred ...

. It was built in between 1856 and 1861 on the corner of Midland Road. The construction in the 1860s of the

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's London

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, St Pancras railway station, necessitated the church's demolition. It was taken down and re-erected in 1866–67, with alterations by Johnson, as Wanstead United Reformed Church.Article on Wanstead United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational Church), Wanstead
/ref> Its sale to Wanstead provided £526 which was combined with £12,500 compensation from the railway company to build a replacement in Kentish Town.

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* Churches in the London Borough of Redbridge United Reformed churches in London John Johnson buildings {{London-church-stub