St Mary's Church, Ealing, St. Mary's Road,
Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Ealing was histor ...
, England, W5 5RH. The building is listed as Grade II, Number: 1079376.
Outside the building is
Romanesque. The old medieval church was demolished in 1720 and a new church opened in 1740, design by James Horne. The current church was designed by the architect
S.S.Teulon, who enlarged and redecorated the earlier Georgian church, between 1865 and 1873, giving it the appearance of a Greek Byzantine basilica. The new building was consecrated in 1866 by
Bishop Tait, the Bishop of London, who praised Teulon's alterations at St. Mary's, Ealing, as "the transformation of a Georgian monstrosity into the semblance of a Byzantine Basilica".
A vestry was added in 1887, the organ enlarged in 1927, further redecoration in the 1950s and 'The Polygon' created in 1978. Further restoration was completed in 2003.
The church contains a good collection of Victorian stained glass windows that were commissioned by Thomas Boddington, who lived at Gunnersbury Lodge, in 1864–74. Old wall tablets and a medieval brass to Richard and Kateryn Amondesham (c.1490) were retained from the old church.
The marble and Caen stone reredos was adorned with
Salviati mosaics.
There is a memorial to
John Horne Tooke
John Horne Tooke (25 June 1736 – 18 March 1812), known as John Horne until 1782 when he added the surname of his friend William Tooke to his own, was an England, English clergyman, politician, and Philology, philologist. Associated with radica ...
(d 1812) by
Louis Frederick Roslyn
Louis Frederick Roslyn (born Roselieb; 13 July 1878 – 1940), also known as Louis Fritz Roselieb, was a British sculptor noted for his World War I war memorials, portrait sculptures and bronze statuettes. Before beginning his career, he stu ...
and a modern brass to
Walrond Jackson
William Walrond Jackson (9 January 181125 November 1895) was Bishop of Antigua from 1860 to 1879.
Life
He was the son of William Jackson of Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, and Mary Judith Walrond. Jackson was educated at Codrington College, ...
, Bishop of Antigua, who died in Ealing in 1895.
Gallery
File:St Mary's Church, Ealing, interior.jpg, interior
File:St Mary's Church, Ealing, stained glass 1.jpg, Stained-glass
File:St Mary's Church, Ealing, angels on ceiling, detail.jpg, Angels
File:St Mary, St Mary's Road, South Ealing, London W5 - West end - geograph.org.uk - 1758959.jpg, West end
See also
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Jill Saward
Jill Saward, also known by her married name Jill Drake (14 January 1965 – 5 January 2017) was an English campaigner on issues relating to sexual violence.
She was the victim of a violent robbery and rape in 1986 at a vicarage in Ealing, Lond ...
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Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. Ealing is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Plan.
Ealing was histor ...
Samuel Sanders Teulon buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in England