St Mary's Church, Ilford or St Mary's Church, Great Ilford is a

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parish church in

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, located in the

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History

A new ecclesiastical parish for Great Ilford was split off from that of

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in 1830 and its church building completed the following year. The church's principal benefactor was Robert Westley Hall-Dare, M.P. His daughter, Mary Hall-Dare (d. April 1908), laid the foundation stone and the church was opened on June 9, 1831, by

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, Bishop of London, “and the day was spent in general festivity from the highest to the lowest classes”. Its first vicar was appointed in 1837 - its

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was initially vested in

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. A tower was added in 1866 and a chancel, lady chapel and vestries in 1920. St Clement's Church was completed as a

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for it in 1896, before becoming the parish's main church in 1902. A complete set of fourteen "

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" was painted for the Revd. Hubert Valentine Eardley-Wilmot in 1916 by the artist

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. One of the stations was dedicated to the Vicar's younger brother, Gerald Eardley-Wilmot, who died of wounds fighting in France that year. Three years later, in 1919, Prynne also painted three altar panels for the Church.

Gallery

St Mary, High Street, Great Ilford - East end - geograph.org.uk - 4172295.jpg, Interior of St Mary's Church, Ilford Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne Painted Angel, St Mary's Church Ilford.jpg,

's painted angel altar panel St Mary, High Street, Great Ilford - geograph.org.uk - 4172316.jpg , North side of St Mary's Church St Mary, High Street, Great Ilford - geograph.org.uk - 4172315.jpg , South side of St Mary's Church

References

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