St Mary's Church, Ealing Explained

St Mary's Church
Pushpin Map:London
Map Caption:St Mary's in London
Country:England
Denomination:Church of England
Consecrated Date:1866
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Heritage Designation:Grade II
Designated Date:19 Jan 1981
Architect:Samuel Sanders Teulon
Style:Romanesque
Years Built:1865-1873
Deanery:Ealing
Archdeaconry:Northolt
Diocese:London
Province:Canterbury
Vicar:Steve Paynter
Curate:Wai Meng Chow, Alex Volossevich

St Mary's Church, Ealing, St Mary's Road, Ealing, England, W5 5RH. The building is listed as Grade II, Number: 1079376.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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".[6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

There is a memorial to John Horne Tooke (d 1812) by Louis Frederick Roslyn and a modern brass to Walrond Jackson, Bishop of Antigua, who died in Ealing in 1895.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Monuments in Ealing Parish Church, St Mary. Speel. Bob. The Second Website of Bob Speel. https://web.archive.org/web/20190427101109/http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/ealingstmary.htm. 2019-04-27. live.
  2. Web site: St Mary's, Ealing, History. St Mary's, Ealing. https://web.archive.org/web/20171219201639/http://stmarysealing.org.uk/history/. 2017-12-19. live.
  3. Web site: CHURCH OF ST MARY. Historic England. https://web.archive.org/web/20160307080635/https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1079376. 2016-03-07. live.
  4. Web site: A little Moorish. Evans. Barrie. 11 September 2003. Light Perceptions Limited.
  5. Web site: Ealing and Brentford: Churches, Ealing. British History Online. https://web.archive.org/web/20190402114632/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp150-153. 2019-04-02. live.
  6. Book: Samuel Sanders Teulon, Fellow. . Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1872–73. 1873. 215–7.
  7. Book: Thomas Boddington and the Stained Glass in St. Mary's, Ealing. Harper Smith. T. Harper Smith. A. 1994.
  8. Web site: St. Mary's Church, Ealing. 13 September 2013. The Salviati Architectural Mosaic Database.