User:Father Edmund/Holy Trinity Church, Barkingside

Holy Trinity Church Barkingside is the parish church of in Barkingside in the London Borough of Redbridge.

The building is situated on Mossford Green. It was build in 1840 and is one of the oldest buildings in Barkingside, along with the Barkingside Tube Station (originally a station on the Metropolitan Railway line) and the Banardos Village. The building is neo-gothic in style.

Early members of the parish included Spencer Charrington MP of the Charington brewing family of Gaysham Hall. He was churchwarden of the church for many years. and there are memorials to various members of the family in the Church Building.

The building The church building was built in 1840. Initially because of costs it was a simple barn like building. A chancel was addded in 1867, designed by the architect James Piers St Aubyn

Vicars 1840 John Budgen 1862 Edward Frererick Erskine ....?? 1864 John Matthias Proctor 1879 Thomas Andrew Walker 1885 Alban Wyld 1886 Thomas Norwood Perkins 1890 Wladislaw Somerville Lach-Szyrma 1915 Charles John Wills 1923 Albert Morris Wheatley 1950 John Stokes Newman 1967 Christopher Reeves 1997 Brian Maurice Branche 2003 Edmund Alwyn James Cargill Thompson

Fr Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma was half Cornish half Polish and was an early member of the London Cornish Association. http://www.londoncornish.co.uk/ He died in office aged 73, taking the Sunday Service just a few days before he died.