Welcome to Walthamstow! (Click to enlarge images.)
Our church buildings (clockwise from top left)
St Mary’s, St Stephen’s, St Luke’s in the High St, St Gabriel’s
Parish pictures
Here are a selection of images from which a central strip was used, a different picture for each issue, as headers for this online magazine. All locations can be found within the boundary of the Parish of Walthamstow.
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900 years is a long time by anyone’s reckoning!
The actual date of founding of St Mary’s Church is lost in time. The list of former vicars of St Mary’s displayed in the church commences with Orderic in 1108, therefore we have chosen September 2008 to celebrate this significant anniversary.
Map - Detail of Chapman & André’s plan of Walthamstow dating from 1777.
The Parish Church of St Mary, Walthamstow from the north-west, dated 1783. The Monoux chantry chapel, demolished in the 19th Century, can be seen on the left. The low aisles of the main church were later raised to allow for the installation of the first galleries. The Monoux almshouses, which still stand, can be seen on the extreme left hand side of the picture. Sir George Monoux, former Lord Mayor of London, founded the school that bears his name in these buildings in 1527. (The school has an unbroken history and its successor is The Sir George Monoux Sixth Form College, Chingford Rd, E17.)
St Mary’s Primary School, The Drive, E17
St Mary’s (Church of England) Primary School is our Parish Church School. The pupils range from age 4 (Reception) to age 11. It has stood on its current site in The Drive since 1973, relocating from the former building close to St Mary’s church.
St Mary’s Infants School old building, now known as the Welcome Centre, is used as a church and community facility. Located in Church End, it can be seen from opposite the main door to
St Mary’s church. Initially founded in a barn in
1824 by the then vicar,
Revd William Wilson, the old school building dates from 1828, when 150 children from ages 2-7 were educated. In 1830, following one of his voyages, Charles Darwin placed three Patagonian children from Tierra del Fuego in the South Atlantic named Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button and York Minster at the school. Under the care of Mr Wilson and his wife they were taught English, Christianity, and agriculture and appeared before King William IV and Queen Adelaide.
The junction where Hoe Street crosses High Street and Church Hill is on a major route through Walthamstow.
On the Hoe St side of the corner Clock tower on Church Hill is the Walthamstow Coat of Arms. Below are Arms of dignitaries from Walthamstow’s past, many remembered in the names of schools.
The Old Butcher’s Shop
Wood Street
LONDON, E17
(Grade II Listed Building)
A remarkable survival of an eighteenth century weatherboarded butchers shop, which is still in use as retail premises.
Interior
St Mary’s Church
Walthamstow Village
LONDON, E17
Carved reredos (1905)
after The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
The line from London Liverpool St Station passes through our parish, continuing north to its end at Chingford.
Walthamstow Central Station (London Underground) and Walthamstow bus station is in the near distance beyond the bridge and falls within our parish boundary.
