UPMINSTER
Including Corbets Tey and Hacton

Upminster, Essex, 3¾ miles east-southeast from Romford railway station through Hornchurch; a secluded agricultural village, lying east of the Ingrebourn brook, in a green upland country, from many of which there are wide prospects. Population 1329.

Until the Dissolution the manor belonged to the monks of Waltham, and, Upminster Hall, 1 mile north of the church was their hunting seat. Part of the old half timbered house remains, but the greater part is modern. The Church, St. Lawrence, which stands by the crossing of the Hornchurch and Aveley roads (or, as they say in these parts, by the four-wont way), was rebuilt in 1861-62, and is a commonplace Dec. building, comprising nave, south aisle and porch, chancel, and west tower, in which are 3 bells. Inside are some monuments, rescued from the old church, of persons who have held property in the parish, and among them one to Geerard D'Ewes, raised by his grandson, Sir Simonds D'Ewes, the noted antiquary. Also a brass to Nicholas Wayte, citizen and mercer, d. 1545, and wife Ellen. But there is no memorial to the most distinguished resident at Upminster, William Derham, who was rector from 1689 to his death, April 5, 1735.

[Handbook to The Environs of London :
James Thorne 1876]

Church Records:

• St. Laurence, Corbets Tey Rd
  Baptisms 1543-1908,
  Marriages 1568-1931,
  Burials 1543-1897 : ERO
   
• St. Joseph (Roman Catholic), Champion Rd
  Formed 1923
   
• Methodist Chapel, Station Rd.
  built c.1910
   
• Congregational Chapel, Station Rd.
  Baptisms 1801-1837 : ERO
  Originally at Upminster Hill, rebuilt 1911 in Station Road,
  now Trinity United Reform Church

Links

• Parish Church of St Laurence 
  updatd May 2003

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