St Erkenwald's Church, Barking

St Erkenwald's Church

St Erkenwald's Church is a Church of England parish church on Levett Road, Barking in east London. It was established as a temporary church in 1934, which was only replaced by a permanent red-brick church twenty years later - the latter was part-funded by money from a War Damage payment for Holy Trinity Church, Canning Town, destroyed in the London Blitz.^[1] It is dedicated to Earconwald, one of the founders of Barking Abbey and brother to its first abbess Ethelburga.

References

1. 'The borough of Barking', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5, ed. W R Powell (London, 1966), pp. 235-248.