The Churches of Britain and Ireland
| Barking, Greater London
Barking Baptist Church is on Linton Road is dated 1893, and was seen by Streetview in 2018. TQ 4426 8429. Link. A Romanian church also meets here. Barking Methodist Church is on London Road and Short Blue Place, and was seen by Streetview in 2025. TQ 4419 8415. Link. Be Church (Barking Elim Church) is on Axe Street, and seen by Streetview in 2024. It presumably replaced or is on the site of a chapel labelled as Independent Chapel on a map of 1873, and on the 1897 25" map as Meeting Room. Mid-20th century maps don't show it as a place of worship. Link. Celestial Church of Christ on King Edward's Road, as seen by Streetview in 2025. TQ 4468 8371. Older O.S. maps show a Friends' Meeting House on North Street and Queen's Road, at TQ 4402 8438. An old photo of it can be seen here. It survives as Singh Sabha London East Gurdwara. Facebook. There used to be a Congregational Chapel on Broadway, at TQ 4417 8394. It may be shown on a map of 1873 - it isn't labelled as a place of worship, but it had definitely been built before 1897. It didn't survive in active use to the middle of the last century. Its site lies mostly beneath the smaller building seen in a Streetview from 2025. St. Erkenwald (2024 Streetview) stands on Levett Road, at TQ 4534 8481. Pevsner, which dates it to 1954-5, says that its predecessor now serves as the church hall, and dates that to 1934. The only available map to show it as a church is the 25" map of 1946, which puts it behind the present church. It isn't visible to Streetview, but there is signage at the side of the present church (2024 Streetview) to the Oasis Centre, which is probably the re-purposed earlier church. Assuming this to be correct, its interior can be seen here. St. Mary and St. Ethelburga (R.C.) on George Street and Linton Road, as seen by Streetview in 2022. Pevsner dates it to 1979. TQ 4418 8431. Link. St. Margaret. A rather heavily processed old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. TQ 4407 8389. Link. Grade I listed. See here for related listed features. Some remains of Barking Abbey stand adjacent, the Curfew Tower among them (2021 Streetview). Link. The 1873 map shows a Wesleyan Chapel on East Street at TQ 4425 8404. Some photos of it can be seen here, where it's dated to 1869, with closure when a larger chapel (Wesleyan Central Hall) was opened across the road in 1928. A photo of it can be seen here. It was damaged by a V2 in WWII. St. Patrick (1940) on Blake Avenue, at TQ 4543 8373. Streetview saw it in 2025. Link. St. Paul used to stand on Ripple Road at TQ 4457 8391. Some photos of it can be seen here. It was hit by a V2 in 1945, killing a number of the congregation. Ripple Centre (2025 Streetview) now stands on its site. News item. Salvation Army Church (2024 Streetview) on Ripple Road. TQ 4487 8378. Link.
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17 December 2025
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