Southend-on-Sea, Essex

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Churches in Cambridge Town, Eastwood, Prittlewell, Shoeburyness, Thorpe Bay, Westcliff on Sea.

All Saints (2024 Streetview) originally stood on a plot of land between Sutton Road and Prittlewell Street. Road changes mean it now stands between Sutton Road and a roundabout. TQ 8860 8591. Link. The history page dates it to 1886-8, with later extensions. Maps of the 1890's show an otherwise unidentified Chapel just north of All Saints, on Lambert Street (vanished) at TQ 8857 8594. Its site lies about where the tree and flower beds are in a Streetview from 2024. Can you advise what it was?

Holy Trinity, on Southchurch Boulevard, Southchurch, as seen by Streetview in 2017. An old postcard view. According to its church website history page, the church was extended in 1906. The postcard, postmarked 1905, pre-dates the extension. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. TQ 9016 8609. Link. Grade II* listed.

A Mission Hall shows on late 19th century maps on Southchurch Beach (now Eastern Esplanade) at TQ 8992 8479. It seems to have closed during or before the 1920's. It stood on the right hand side of the junction seen in a Streetview from 2024 (though the road heading away from the camera didn't exist at that time).

The cemetery on North Road has a double Mortuary Chapel. Aligned north-south, the northern one is shown on large scale O.S. maps as CoE, the other as Nonconformist. Not well seen by Streetview, some photos can be seen here. TQ 8756 8613.

Potters House Christian Centre on Coleman Street, as seen by Streetview in 2024. Its appearance suggests it's probably a former Chapel, but the only map I can find which labels it does so as Hall (in 1947). TQ 8840 8605. Link.

Sacred Heart of Jesus (R.C.) Southchurch Road was seen by Streetview in 2016, dated by Pevsner to 1909-12. TQ 8920 8586. Link.

St. Mark is on Princes Street and Hamlet Road, and was seen by Streetview in 2018. Older maps label it as a Baptist Tabernacle, and Pevsner dates it to 1885. TQ 8783 8549. Link. It was preceded on the same site by a church (shown on the 1880 map) - St. Alban's Church (Temporary). Perhaps a tin tabernacle.

Southend Christian Fellowship (2024 Streetview) stands at the junction of Southchurch Road and Lovelace Avenue, at TQ 8965 8595. Link.

Southend-On-Sea Evangelical Church (2024 Streetview) on Short Street and Guildford Road. TQ 8830 8605. Link.

A map surveyed in 1873 shows a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Avenue Road and Park Road. Its grade II listing dates it to 1872. O.S. maps suggest that it's been closed for a long time - it isn't labelled as a place of worship on a map surveyed no later than 1961. A 2019 Streetview shows some building work going on. TQ 8763 8549.

Another Wesleyan Methodist Chapel stood off Scott's Villas Road at TQ 8917 8496. Pre-dating a map of 1880, it survived at least up to 1938, but had gone no later than 1954. Its site lies beneath the nearer part of the blue building seen by Streetview in 2024.

Cambridge Town
St. Andrew on Church Road. TQ 9294 8460. From an old postcard in Geoff Watt's Collection. Link. Grade II* listed.
St. George and the English Martyrs (R.C) on Ness Road, as seen by Streetview in 2023. TQ 9311 8492. Link. The history page says it was "complete by 1938" (Pevsner says built 1938-9). The history also mentions the first St. George of 1891, which stood at the rear of the present site, and is shown on the 25" map of 1897 at TQ 9309 8492. A garage now stands on its site (2023 Streetview).
Older O.S. maps show Salvation Hall on Ness Road at TQ 9305 8510. Presumably Salvation Army, it seems to have survived as the building seen by Streetview in 2024.
Shoeburyness Evangelical Church is on West Road, and was seen by Streetview in 2024. A map of 1947 labels it Misn (Mission) Hall. TQ 9289 8509. Link.

Eastwood
St. David, on Rayleigh Road and The Rodings. TQ 8361 8907. © Julieanne Savage. Link.
St. Laurence and All Saints, in the shadow of Southend airport. TQ 8616 8885. © Geoff Watt. Two more views - 1, 2, both © Karel Kuča (2024). Link. Grade I listed.

Prittlewell
A map of 1880 shows a Chapel (Peculiar People) on North Street (now Victoria Avenue), at circa TQ 8759 8688. It had already gone out of use by 1895 and was demolished at some point, its site now occupied by bungalows - 2024 Streetview.
The same map marks a Congregational Chapel set back from the west side of North Street behind other buildings, at TQ 8758 8681. It had closed by the middle of the last century, and its site, which can now be seen from the road, is marked by the shed at the rear of the yard seen by Streetview in 2024.
The remains of Prittlewell Cluniac Priory stood a little way north of the village, and is marked on O.S. maps at TQ 8765 8734. A link and its grade I listing both have photos.
Providence Baptist Church (2024 Streetview) on East Street is also present on the 1880 map. TQ 8781 8681. Link.
St. Mary the Virgin, has some fragments from as early as the 11th century, but is mostly 15th century. TQ 8768 8682. © Brian Thompson. Another view from an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. Link. Grade I listed.

Shoeburyness
Garrison Church of St. Peter and St. Paul on Chapel Way. According to  some on-line sources, this church has been closed. Its grade II listing dates it to 1866. TQ 9354 8476.
St. Mary the Virgin on North Shoebury Road at TQ 9292 8614, as seen by Streetview in 2024. Link. Grade II* listed.
St. Peter on Hinguar Street. TQ 9384 8497. © Chris Kippin (2024). Link. According to the Our Story page, the building is a former school, and a church from 1866. It had been preceded by a tin church somewhere on Dane Street, but no available maps show it.
Salvation Army Church on Frobisher Way - 2024 Streetview. TQ 9305 8614. Link.
Older maps show a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on High Street and Gunners Road, at TQ 9406 8506. Built between 1873 and 1896, it was still in active use into the second half of the last century, but it has since been demolished, and a block of flats built on its site - 2024 Streetview. A postcard of the chapel can be seen here.

Thorpe Bay
St. Augustine (2024 Streetview) stands on a circular plot of land surrounded by a road from which radiate St. Augustine's Avenue and Johnstone Road. Pevsner dates it to 1934-5. TQ 9166 8510. Link. The history page says its predecessor was from 1913, and stood where the church hall is today - a little way west of the church on Johnstone Road and Parkanaur Avenue. Streetview saw it in 2024.
Thorpe Bay Methodist Church (2024 Streetview) is west again along Johnstone Road and The Broadway, at TQ 9143 8520. Link.
Maps of 1958 and 1961 show an otherwise unlabelled place of worship on the eastern side of The Broadway at circa TQ 9149 8518. It survives and was seen by Streetview in 2012. Perhaps a predecessor of the Methodist Church, which is across the road, can you confirm what it was?

Westcliff on Sea
Avenue Baptist Church (2019 Streetview) on Milton Road and Avenue Terrace dates from 1901. TQ 8738 8558. Link.
Clarence Road Baptist Church (2024 Streetview). An earlier chapel on the same site is shown on a map of 1897. TQ 8813 8543. Link.
The former Cliff Town Congregational Church (so called in its grade II listing, which dates it to 1865) on Nelson Street, seen by Streetview in 2024. TQ 8807 8536.
Kings Road U.R.C. on Kings Road and Crowstone Road. TQ 8629 8588.  © Brian Thomson. Link.
Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen (R.C.) on Milton Road, as seen by Streetview in 2019. TQ 8732 8559. Link. It's dated on the history page to 1869.
St. Alban the Martyr (2014 Streetview) on St. John's Road. TQ 8734 8573. Link. Grade II listed - dates  it to 1897-1904.
St. Matthew's Christian Spiritualist Church on Clarence Road was seen by Streetview in 2024. TQ 8813 8540. Link.
Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Finchley Road, as seen by Streetview in 2024. TQ 8648 8594. Link. The history page dates it to 1968, successor to an earlier synagogue on Alexandra Road of 1912. It survives, in use as a nursery in 2024 (Streetview). TQ 8778 8527.