St Alban's Church, Ilford
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St Alban's Church, Ilford, is a
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church and parish in
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, part of the
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. It began as a temporary building, replaced by a permanent
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redbrick one on Albert Road built between 1900 and 1906. Both of these were
chapels of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to travel distance. Often ...
to St Clement's Church, Ilford until the formation of a separate parish of St Alban's in 1958 It is now a
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parishSt Alban's Singers - Official Website
/ref> St. Alban's Singers, a choir for mixed voices (SATB), is based in the church.


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St Alban's Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Redbridge
Ilford Ilford is a large List of areas of London, town in East London, England, northeast of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Redbridge, Ilford is within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London. It had a po ...
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