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St Mary's Church, South Ealing
St Mary's Church, Ealing Location in Greater London
51°30′16″N 0°18′21″W / 51.5043446°N 0.3057416°W / 51.5043446; -0.3057416
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
History
Status	Parish church
Consecrated	1866
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	19 Jan 1981
Architect(s)	Samuel Sanders Teulon
Style	Romanesque
Years built	1865-1873
Administration
Deanery	Ealing
Archdeaconry	Northolt
Diocese	London
Province	Canterbury

St Mary's Church, Ealing, St. Mary's Road, Ealing, England, W5 5RH. The building is listed as Grade II, Number: 1079376.

Outside the building is Romanesque. The old medieval church was demolished in 1720 and a new church opened in 1740, design by James Horne. The current church was designed by the architect S.S.Teulon, who enlarged and redecorated the earlier Georgian church, between 1865-1873, giving it the appearance of a Greek Byzantine basilica. The new building was consecrated in 1866 by Bishop Tait, the Bishop of London, who praised Teulon's alterations at St. Mary's, Ealing, as "the transformation of a Georgian monstrosity into the semblance of a Byzantine Basilica".

A vestry was added in 1887, the organ enlarged in 1927, further redecoration in the 1950s and 'The Polygon' created in 1978. Further restoration was completed in 2003.

The church contains a good collection of Victorian stained glass windows that were commissioned by Thomas Boddington, who lived at Gunnersbury Lodge, in 1864-74. Old wall tablets and a medieval brass to Richard and Kateryn Amondesham (c.1490) were retained from the old church.

The marble and Caen stone reredos was adorned with Salviati mosaics.

There is a memorial to John Horne Tooke (d 1812) by Louis Frederick Roslyn and a modern brass to Walrond Jackson, Bishop of Antigua, who died in Ealing in 1895.

Gallery

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  interior

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  Stained-glass

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  Angels

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  West end