St Michael's Church is a Church of England parish church on the Romford Road in Manor Park, east London.
St Michael's Church, Romford Road | |
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51°33′13.778″N 0°3′21.577″E / 51.55382722°N 0.05599361°E | |
Location | Manor Park, Newham, London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
Website | St Michael and All Angels |
Administration | |
Archdiocese | Canterbury |
Diocese | Chelmsford |
Episcopal area | Barking |
Archdeaconry | West Ham |
Deanery | Newham |
It originated in an 1894 mission hall opened on the Romford Road by St Mary's Church, Little Ilford. Initially housed in an iron church, St Michael's moved into a red-brick permanent church by Charles Spooner whose nave and aisles were completed in 1898 and its chancel in 1906. St Michael's became a separate mission district in 1928 under a priest-in-charge, answerable to a bishop, before taking over as the area's parish church in 1939, with St Mary's as its chapel of ease.[1][2]
This Victorian building was later closed, demolished and replaced by a smaller church on the same site as part of the Froud Centre.[3] It serves the parish of St Michael & All Angels, joint with St Mary the Virgin, Little Ilford. As of 2021, the parish priest is Father Lee Taylor.