St Mary's Church, Ealing

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

St Mary's Church, Ealing
St Mary's Church, South Ealing
St Mary's Church, Ealing
St Mary's in London
51.5043446°N 0.3057416°W / 51.5043446; -0.3057416
CountryEngland
DenominationChurch of England
Websitestmarysealing.org.uk
History
StatusParish church
Consecrated1866
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II[1]
Designated19 Jan 1981[1]
Architect(s)Samuel Sanders Teulon
StyleRomanesque
Years built1865-1873
Administration
DeaneryEaling
ArchdeaconryNortholt
DioceseLondon
ProvinceCanterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)Steve Paynter
Curate(s)Wai Meng Chow, Alex Volossevich

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 1865-1873, 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.


  • interior
  • Stained-glass
  • Angels
  • West end


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See also

References
  1. "CHURCH OF ST MARY". Historic England. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07.
  2. Speel, Bob. "Monuments in Ealing Parish Church, St Mary". The Second Website of Bob Speel. Archived from the original on 2019-04-27.
  3. "St Mary's, Ealing, History". St Mary's, Ealing. Archived from the original on 2017-12-19.
  4. Evans, Barrie (11 September 2003). "A little Moorish" (PDF). Light Perceptions Limited.
  5. "Ealing and Brentford: Churches, Ealing". British History Online. Archived from the original on 2019-04-02.
  6. "Samuel Sanders Teulon, Fellow.". Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1872–73. 1873. pp. 215–7.
  7. Harper Smith, T; Harper Smith, A (1994). Thomas Boddington and the Stained Glass in St. Mary's, Ealing.
  8. "St. Mary's Church, Ealing". The Salviati Architectural Mosaic Database. 13 September 2013.
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