Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Chapel or Church: Freestanding building
- District
- Newham
- Town
- Plaistow
- County
- Greater London
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Foundation Stone
Date: 16 June1921
Attended by: - Dedicated
Date: 14 March 1925 - Opened
Date: 21 September 1922 - Show More (2)
- Foundation Stone
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 12411
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Current location
Church was previously the Memorial Baptist Church and was renamed when it combined with St Andrew's Church
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Memorial Community Church
Barking Road
Plaistow
Newham
Greater London
E13 8AL
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 40510 82410
Denomination: Baptist
- Description
- Church itself was built as a memorial and is dedicated by the foundation stone outside the building. See WMR 62032 for the memorial bells record.
- Inscription
- Foundation stone on outside wall:THIS STONE / WAS LAID BY / REVD WALTER S LORD / JUNE 16TH 1921 / IN MEMORY OF THE MEN / OF THIS CHURCH DISTRICT / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914-1918 / GREATER LOVE / HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Church
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brick - Tablet
Measurements: height 900MM, width 600MM
Materials: Stone
- Church
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Plaistow Memorial Community Church
- WMO ID: 111305
- Condition: Good [last updated on 21-11-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Costs
Site: £4,500
Comments: Excluding the purchase of the land and the installation of the organ and bells, the cost of the building alone was estimated at £60,000 in July 1921.
Memorial: £68,000 (final cost)- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
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