St Patrick's Church, Barking Explained

St Patrick's Church is a grade II listed church^[1] on Blake Avenue in the Eastbury district in Barking. It was formed in 1924 as the temporary Church of the Ascension, which was turned into a parish hall in 1940 after being replaced by the permanent brown-brick church, dedicated to Saint Patrick and designed in the Moderne style by A. E. Wiseman. A parish was formed for the permanent church in 1939 by splitting an area off from that of St Margaret's.^[2] In 1959 Christ Church, Barking, was added to the parish of St Patrick's as a chapel of ease. Christ Church, St Patrick's and St Margaret's formed a single team parish until 1 January 2017.^[3] It is now a parish in its own right.

References

1. Web site: St Patrick's Church - Historic England official listing . 15 November 2022.
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp235-248 'The borough of Barking'
3. Web site: St Patrick's Church - Eastbury, Barking, UK . 6 October 2016 . 10 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161010054553/http://www.stpatricksbarking.com/ . dead .

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