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Aldeburgh Road
St. John the Evangelist,. was dedicated in 1903. In 1904 a new parish was created.
William Torbitt School, 1937 by L.E.J. Reynolds, Architect to the
Ilford Education Committee, and J.F.A. Cavanagh, Senior Architectural Assistant
for Schools. Long symmetrical front,
with jagged
Dudokian brickwork to the central and end towers
Canon Palmer Catholic High School,
1961 by Essex County Council. Mother
Teresa Sixth
Form Centre: 1998 by Redbridge Architectural Consultancy.
Downshall County Junior and Infants
Schools. Downshall temporary board
school was opened in 1899 A permanent building was completed in 1902. In 1947
the school was re-organized to provide a secondary school in addition to those
for juniors and infants.
Downshall
The manor of Downshall was west of Seven Kings Water,
about a mile south- east of Newbury. It was a free tenement held of Barking
Abbey until about 1250, when it became part of the abbey demesne. The name was
derived from a family of tenants named Dun. Downshall occurs, as 'Dunneshall',
in 1441 and 1456. In 1540 it was on
lease from the abbey to Edward Harris and after the dissolution in 1546 it was
granted by the Crown, to Sir Richard Gresham.
In 1730 John Hyde sold Downshall to John Dagge of Rotherhithe, mariner.
Dagge left the manor to Mary Cherriton, and her son sold it in 1776 to a Deptford
gardener named Edmonds. In 1847 James Edmonds was the owner of the estate. It was later owned successively by James
Hunsdon, a Mr. Edwards, and C. H. Hambly, the last of whom sold it for building
to A. Cameron Corbett, who developed it in 1898-1901. The Porter family were
tenant farmers of Downshall continuously at least from 1684 to 1793.
Eastern Avenue
Newton Industrial Estate, Woodcraft,
Ebbes House. A striking, white-rendered
streamlined factory with a tall Art Deco tower - one of the few examples of the
style to be built along the new arterial road.
1936 by Fuller Hall & Ferbam for Frederick King & Co. Ltd, pre- served
provision merchants.
St Theresa R.C., 1951-2 Plain
brick, Early Christian round-arched style
United Methodist church. The Methodist Union of 1932 led to its
closing and the formation of a new church
Hertford Road
Speculative development in
the early 20th century involved 142 house plots and a new school but only four
houses in this road were sold
Newbury Park
Newbury Park. Named
from ‘Newbury’ 1348, ‘Newberry’ 16th century, ‘Newbury’ 1805, ‘Great Newbury’
1883, that is 'the new manor or manor house', from Middle English ‘newe’ and
‘bury’. The Newbury Manor belonged to Barking Abbey and at the dissolution went
to Sir Richard Gresham. Housing and schools came in the late19th. In 1891 Newbury, then comprising 170 acres, was
put up for sale by order of the mortgagees. It appears to have been bought by
J. H. Mitchell, and building development had started by 1900.The farmhouse- of
the estate, called Great Newbury, was said in 1900 to be modern. It appears to
have been demolished in 1932 or 1933.
Oaks Lane
Oaks Park High School, 2003 by
Watkins Gray International. Massive
X-plan principal block, the angled wings on the N side framing the playing
fields. Sweeping curved roofs,
sheet-metal-clad upper storeys with brick below.
Oaks Lane Methodist Church the first Methodist church to be built in
England after the Union of 1932. Shortly before the Union William Potter,
Superintendent of the Upton Park Primitive Methodist circuit proposed that the
Primitive Methodist churches at Ilford, and Seven Kings, and the Wesleyan
church at Newbury Park should be sold and the proceeds used to build a new
church on a more central site. The church was opened in 1934. Its first trust
was composed of an equal number of Wesleyan, United, and Primitive Methodists, and the trust deed was the
Model Deed adopted by the uniting conference of 1932. Potter himself became
first minister of Oaks Lane.
Barn at Aldborough House Farm c 1730. Formerly the
chapel attached to Aldborough Hall.
Seven Kings Park
Opened 1902
Downshall farmhouse stood at the south-eastern corner of what is now Seven Kings Park;
its name survives in Downshall Avenue and in the Downshall schools. The house was demolished shortly after 1900. It is said to have been
of red brick.
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