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Leyton Grange, LONDON, E10 5UA

Large block of housing on Church Road.

St Mary's, Leyton.

Looking towards Simonds Road

Domesday Book records two priests in Leyton in 1086, so the current church almost certainly occupies the site of a much earlier building. The red brick tower of St Mary the Virgin, Leyton dates from 1658. It has an 18th century clock turret on top. Other parts date from the 17th and 19th centuries, although the church was much altered and enlarged in 1932. Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says of Leyton Church: "A huge surprise in the endless late-Victorian bow fronts of London-across-the-Lea. A village church that gradually got bigger, and one that has never been rectified. A pre-war west porch adds itself unselfconsciously to the bits of 1830 and 1750, all shapes and sizes, as diverse as the characters in a saloon bar. This is something far more important than architectural style, and the kind of thing that was swept away in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred for the sake of 'correctness' or 'tidyness' - like cutting inches off people's heads to make things consistent." The churchyard is certainly like a country churchyard dropped down into densely-packed east London. The northern half is maintained as a nature reserve, although the whole is of great ecological and historical interest.

A grade II listed building built in the 1760s, but refronted early in the next century.

Large modern fire station on Church Road.

I think this is the grade II listed monument for someone who died in 1757. The listing description fits, except that it is described as octagonal - it seems to be hexagonal.

Domesday Book records two priests in Leyton in 1086, so the current church almost certainly occupies the site of a much earlier building. The red brick tower of St Mary the Virgin, Leyton dates from 1658. It has an 18th century clock turret on top. Other parts date from the 17th and 19th centuries, although the church was much altered and enlarged in 1932. Ian Nairn in Nairn's London (1966) says of Leyton Church: "A huge surprise in the endless late-Victorian bow fronts of London-across-the-Lea. A village church that gradually got bigger, and one that has never been rectified. A pre-war west porch adds itself unselfconsciously to the bits of 1830 and 1750, all shapes and sizes, as diverse as the characters in a saloon bar. This is something far more important than architectural style, and the kind of thing that was swept away in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred for the sake of 'correctness' or 'tidyness' - like cutting inches off people's heads to make things consistent." The churchyard is certainly like a country churchyard dropped down into densely-packed east London. The northern half is maintained as a nature reserve, although the whole is of great ecological and historical interest. What is on the information panel on the right can be seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7345679