St Martin's Church, Plaistow

St Martin's Church, Plaistow
Coordinates: 51°31′45.966″N 0°2′14.874″E / 51.52943500°N 0.03746500°E / 51.52943500; 0.03746500
Location	Plaistow, Newham
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
Website	Parish of the Divine Compassion
History
Status	Active
Dedication	Martin of Tours
Consecrated	1894
Administration
Parish	Parish of the Divine Compassion
Deanery	Newham
Archdeaconry	West Ham
Episcopal area	Barking
Diocese	Chelmsford
Province	Canterbury
Clergy
Assistant priest(s)	Philip Bartholomew SSF, Christopher Oladuji
Honorary priest(s)	Faith Wakeling TSSF (associate priest)

The foundation stone of the church.

St Martin's Church is a Church of England church on Boundary Road in Plaistow, Newham, east London. It was built in 1894 as a mission church, with the foundation stone laid on 28 June that year by Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (née Hope), Dowager Duchess of Newcastle and widow of the 6th Duke of Newcastle^[1] - she was a major benefactress in the area and also funded the opening of St Thomas' Roman Catholic Church in Woodford the following year.^[2][3][4]

Until 1997 its parish hall was in timber, with a World War Two bomb shelter attached - that year the firm Cottrell and Vermeulen refurbished the hall and added a community building and housing.^[5] With the three churches of St Mary's Church, Plaistow, St Matthias’ Church, Canning Town and St Philip and St James’ Church, Plaistow, it now forms part of the Parish of the Divine Compassion.^[6]

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