St Edward the Confessor
The Market Place
Baptisms 1561- date
Marriages 1561- date
Burials 1561- date: Not deposited
Baptisms 1561-1846
Marriages 1561-1837
Burials 1561-1855: Copies at ERO
Monumental Inscriptions
EoLFHS Publications
All Saints
Ardleigh Green Rd
Squirrel's Heath
Baptisms 1926- date
Marriages 1939- date
Burials 1926- date: Not deposited
Good Shepherd
Collier Row
Baptisms 1934- date,
Marriages 1935- date: Not deposited
St Andrew
St Andrews Rd
Formed 1863
St George
Chippenham Rd
Harold Hill
Formed 1939
St John the Divine
Mawney Rd
Baptisms
Marriages 1928- date: Not deposited
St Michael & All Angels
Main Road
Gidea Park
Baptisms
Marriages 1930- date: Not deposited
St Thomas
Noak Hill
Formed 1841
The Ascension
Collier Row
Formed 1880 as mission church
Parish created 1927
St Edward
(Roman Catholic)
Park End Rd
Baptisms 1852- date
Marriages 1857- date: Not deposited
Death register: 1858-1877: WDA
Congregational Chapel
Hornchurch Lane
Baptisms 1812-1818: PRO
Congregational Chapel
South St
Baptisms 1779-1854
Baptisms 1904-1943
Marriages 1904-1943
Burials 1781-1855: ERO
Methodist Chapel
Victoria Rd
Baptisms 1936-1961: ERO
Primitive Methodist Circuit
Baptisms 1861-1916: ERO
Romford Baptist Chapel
Marriages 1937-1943: ERO
Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Baptisms 1835-1837: ERO
Including Collier Row, Rush Green, Gidea Park, Harold Hill, Noak Hill & Squirrell's Heath
Romford, Essex, a market town on the Colchester road, and a station on the Great Eastern Railway, 12 miles from London by road or railway. Population of the town 6355, of the parish 8239, of whom 373 were inmates of the Union Workhouse. Inns: White Hart (a good house), and Golden Lion, High Street; Swan, Dolphin, Lamb, etc., Market place.
The name is derived from the ford over the Bourne (called by some writers the Rom), a shallow stream which flows through the middle of the town and falls into the Thames at Dagenham.
Romford had a market as early as 1247. The first mention of the manor is in a record of 1299, when it was held by Henry of Winchester, a Jewish convert. Until about 1780 Romford was a chapelry of Hornchurch, but is now a distinct parish.
With Havering-atte-Bower and Hornchurch, originally one parish, it formed the Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, was governed by its own high steward and justices, and possessed a separate jurisdiction, courts, including prerogative court for wills, session, and commission for trying felons within the liberty.
The town stretches for over a mile along the great Essex road, and is crossed near the centre by another principal street, which leads south to Hornchurch and Rainham, and north to Havering. The main street, narrow in the middle, expands towards the ends, the western half forming the High Street, the eastern the Market place, the cross street being named South Street on one side of the High Street and North Street on the other.
Several additional streets have been formed within the last few years, especially south of the town and about the railway station, High Street and Market-place contain some good shops, an unusually large number of inns and public-houses, and a few public buildings. The Market place extends from west of the church to the extreme east end of the town, cattle-pens being fixtures in the open street.
The original chapel of Romford, built about 1323 some distance east of the town, was taken down in 1407, and a larger one erected on the site of the present church. Romford Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and St. Edward the Confessor, is a Dec. building, with window tracery inclining to Flamboyant, designed by Mr. J. Johnson, and consecrated Sept. 19, 1850.
It is built of hammered Kentish rag with Bath stone dressings, and comprises nave with aisles, chancel with chapels, and on the south tower a stone spire 160 feet high, and a stone porch. The tower contains a good peal of 8 bells.
St. Andrew's church, at the east end of the town, was erected from the designs of Mr. J. Johnson, in 1863, when the ecclesiastical district of St. Andrew was created. The church is a neat late Dec. building of Kentish rag and Bath stone. Not far from it is a Cemetery with a small Norman chapel and lich gate.
Ascension Church, Romford
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Good Shepherd, Romford
© Martin Williams
St Andrew, Romford
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