Wanstead United Reformed Church - August 2018

Wanstead United Reformed Church is a

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place of worship in

Wanstead Wanstead () is an area in East London, England, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It borders South Woodford to the north, Redbridge to the east and Manor Park to the south, with Leytonstone and Walthamstow to the west. It is located 8 m ...

, east London. It was originally built as St Luke's Church, on a site in Euston Road, St Pancras, London, in 1856-61, to the design of John Johnson. In 1866-67, it was dismantled and re-erected in modified form on its present site, also to a design by Johnson, to make way for

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. 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

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. 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 Freder ...

. 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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, 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 (architect, born 1807) buildings {{London-church-stub