My brother and I were christened in the Crypt of St Stephens . The only piece left of the beautiful building after WW2 plus the parsonage? This was 70 odd yrs ago. Both our grandparents lived in Bow and this was their church. I remember, just, going to services in the crypt with my mother and nan.
When we were children my sister and I used to go to church there in the crypt . We used to go with our parents , Marjorie ( nee Knowles ) and Douglas Burbidge. My parents were married in Bow church and my grandfather owned Sheridan Knowles , picture framers and cabinet makers right opposite Bow church .
I don’t know how we came to go to St. Stephens to church , in our camel coats and green velour hats !
Thank you for this reference. My maternal grandparents married at St Stephens in 1923. Amy Clarke & Henry Shearman. Their addresses were 8 & 11, Norman Road although they moved up to Leeds later in the 1920s.
Thanks Steve,
I lived within walking distance of here on Ellesmere Road, where I grew up in the 60s. I attended a small Sunday School Mission of the New Testament Church of God, which in the earlier days held Sunday School in the Welsh Chapel at the corner of Longfellow Road and Whitman Road.
The Mission eventually was formalised as a congregation in the mid 1960s and now worships in the Church Hall of the Holy Trinity Morgan Street Church site.
Thank you for this picture. My grandmother was baptized in this church in April 1882. She then went on to live 9 days short of turning 103 years old. According to the baptism record the family lived on Parnell Street. It’s so sad that the church had to be demolished.
My thanks, Steve
It’s an amazing piece of local history, and really sad that it had to be demolished. Each time I drive past the location on Tredegar Road, I think of it now.
my great great grandfather I am told made the alter screen. John. Mattias Wright.
it looked to be a beautiful church. My uncle was in the church choir!
My brother and I were christened in the Crypt of St Stephens . The only piece left of the beautiful building after WW2 plus the parsonage? This was 70 odd yrs ago. Both our grandparents lived in Bow and this was their church. I remember, just, going to services in the crypt with my mother and nan.
When we were children my sister and I used to go to church there in the crypt . We used to go with our parents , Marjorie ( nee Knowles ) and Douglas Burbidge. My parents were married in Bow church and my grandfather owned Sheridan Knowles , picture framers and cabinet makers right opposite Bow church .
I don’t know how we came to go to St. Stephens to church , in our camel coats and green velour hats !
My father was baptised in this Church in 1910. He lived in Rosebank Road.
Had absolutely no idea a church was ever here. Where exactly was it located?
Tredegar Road between Ordell Road and Mostyn Road. Demolished after the second world war.
Map here: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=17.2&lat=51.53148&lon=-0.02726&layers=102&b=11&z=0&point=0,0
Thank you for this reference. My maternal grandparents married at St Stephens in 1923. Amy Clarke & Henry Shearman. Their addresses were 8 & 11, Norman Road although they moved up to Leeds later in the 1920s.
Thanks Steve,
I lived within walking distance of here on Ellesmere Road, where I grew up in the 60s. I attended a small Sunday School Mission of the New Testament Church of God, which in the earlier days held Sunday School in the Welsh Chapel at the corner of Longfellow Road and Whitman Road.
The Mission eventually was formalised as a congregation in the mid 1960s and now worships in the Church Hall of the Holy Trinity Morgan Street Church site.
Thank you for this picture. My grandmother was baptized in this church in April 1882. She then went on to live 9 days short of turning 103 years old. According to the baptism record the family lived on Parnell Street. It’s so sad that the church had to be demolished.
My thanks, Steve
It’s an amazing piece of local history, and really sad that it had to be demolished. Each time I drive past the location on Tredegar Road, I think of it now.
Barry my baptism on the29/7/1961 was the last recorded register before demolished and sabella court was built on the site