St Matthew's Church, West Ham

St Matthew's Church

St Matthew's Church is a Church of England church on Dyson Road in West Ham, east London.^[1] It originated in 1891 as a mission of All Saints Church, West Ham, designed to serve the area between West Ham Park and Romford Road. A permanent building was put up in 1896 and a separate parish formed the following year. It opened a mission of its own around 1900 in Vicarage Lane, which was destroyed by the London Blitz.^[2]

References

1. "St Matthew's, West Ham - Welcome". Retrieved 8 October 2016.
2. Powell (ed), W R (1973), 'West Ham: Churches', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6, London: Victoria County History, pp. 114–123