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Key Image St Edmund
297 Westferry Road
E14 3RS London (Tower Hamlets)
United Kingdom
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Congregation: Parish of Millwall (Diocese of Westminster, Tower Hamlets Deanery (RC))
Geogr. Coordinates: 51.49117° N, 0.02323° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 2000
Architectural style: Modern
Name derivation: From St Edmund of Abingdon
Noteworthy
  • Statue of the patron St Edmund Rich
History:
1846:   Pre-predecessor church, constructed for the 1,000 catholics of the Isle of Dogs, built by John H Fisher & Son from designs by William Wilkinson Wardell
03/06/1872:   Foundation stone of the predecessor church laid (design FW Tasker)
1879:   and again in 1883 reinforcements to counter the effects of the missing foundations
1999:   Demolition and reconstruction (architect David Aitken)
22/09/2000:   Consecration of the reconstructed church
Important persons:
Patron:  Edmund Rich/Edmund of Abingdon (1175–1240, Archbishop of Canterbury, born in Abingdon near Oxford, died in Soissy-sur-Seine in France)
Sources
Explore Churches: St Edmund, https://www.explorechurches.org/church/st-edmund-millwall, retrieved 16/04/2020
Parish of Millwall: Roman Catholic Church of St Edmund, https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/millwall/contact/, retrieved 16/04/2020
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon: Edmund von Abingdon, https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienE/Edmund_von_Abingdon.html, retrieved 16/04/2020
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