St Erkenwald's Church, Barking Explained

St Erkenwald's Church is a Church of England parish church on Levett Road, Barking in Greater London. It was established as a temporary church in 1934, which was only replaced by a permanent red-brick church twenty years later – the latter was part-funded by money from a War Damage payment for Holy Trinity Church, Canning Town, destroyed in the London Blitz.[1] It is dedicated to Earconwald, one of the founders of Barking Abbey and brother to its first abbess Ethelburga.

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  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp235-248 'The borough of Barking'

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