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The Memorial Community Church is a Baptist church in Plaistow, Newham, east London. Neo-Byzantine in style, it is
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History

It was originally founded in 1871 as the Barking Road Tabernacle. This was in continuing debt until Robert Rowntree Clifford took over in 1897, reviving and transforming the church membership and clearing all the debts by 1900. Growth led to the formation of West Ham Central Mission in 1904. This ran alongside the church until its present building opened in 1922. Designed by William Hayne, its construction had taken 15 months, costing about £60,000. It was constructed in the Byzantine style with a domed auditorium and two towers, and was dedicated to men from the local community and the congregation who had died in World War I, with the names of 169 such men cast into the bells in the east tower in 1925. The bells were cast by Gillett & Johnston. One bears the name of
Prince Maurice of Battenberg Prince Maurice of Battenberg , (Maurice Victor Donald; 3 October 1891 – 27 October 1914) was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Victoria. He was known ...
, the only member of the British royal family killed in action in World War One, and one is dedicated to the Unknown Warrior. In the New Year Honours of 1938, Robert Rowntree Clifford's wife, Hettie, received the
OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
for her efforts as superintendent of the women's work of the Mission. In 1978, a new trust deed changed the name of the Mission to Memorial Baptist Church Plaistow. The Memorial Community Church was formed in 2006 when the congregation of
St Andrew's Church, Plaistow St Andrew's Church was a Church of England church on Barking Road in Plaistow, east London. It began as a small mission built in 1860 on Whitwell Road by St Mary's Church, Plaistow. A permanent church designed by James Brooks opened in 1870 on ...
merged into the congregation of Memorial Baptist Church to form one group.


Further reading

*Clifford, Paul Rowntree (1950), ''Venture in Faith: the Story of the West Ham Central Mission'', Carey Kingsgate Press, ASIN B0000CHTRA. (Reprinted in 1952 ASIN B0007K1ZTS.)


References


External links


'West Ham: Roman Catholicism, Nonconformity and Judaism', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, ed. W R Powell (London, 1973), pp. 123-141
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