St Mary's Church, Ealing, St Mary's Road,

Ealing Ealing () is a district in west London (sub-region), west London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing. It is the administrative centre of the borough and is identified as a major metropolitan centre in the London Pl ...

, 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 English clergyman, politician and Philology, philologist. Associated with radical proponen ...

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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, Bishop of Antigua, who died in Ealing in 1895.

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Samuel Sanders Teulon buildings Gothic Revival church buildings in London Grade II listed churches in the London Borough of Ealing

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