1912a.Former Alexandra Road Hebrew Synagogue

1912a. Royal village day Nursery is non-Jewish and secular 2002 organization housed in the former Alexandra Road Hebrew Synagogue (not a tautology it means Orthodox services in Hebrew not English). The sides are of pale red bricks and simple windows, but this front above high steps and Hebrew inscription includes a rose and other oolite windows in darker red Herringbone and English Bond brickwork. The Hebrew services continue at a 1967 building elsewhere.

1911c Allington House

1911c Allington House was used to teach dancing in 1953, was Westcliff Baptist Church in 1959, was Southend Progressive Synagogue by 1967 and now has been given this entrance to Southend and District Reform Synagogue.

1911b to 1934 (right) Anglican St. Saviour Church

1911b to 1934 (right) Anglican St. Saviour Church, Westcliff, was dedicated in 1906 and the nave opened in 1911 on the site of a tent and temporary buildings used for fund raising by the Rev. Hugh Morrison Rose. The chancel was completed in 1934, all in squared Kentish Ragstone and oolite ashlar.

1911a with 1954 hall and 1987 front, Belfairs Methodist Church

1911a with 1954 hall and 1987 front, Belfairs Methodist Church near the site of a c.1840 Eastwood “Chapel” of unclear denomination.

1909b-1912, also 1918. Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church, Southchurch

1909b-1912, also 1918. Roman Catholic Sacred Heart Church, Southchurch. The older part on the left shows English Bond red brickwork and oolite ashlar with large Jurassic shells in it. To the right of the traffic cones blue bricks appear near the base, Flemish Bond starts in similar bricks and concrete replaces oolite. Presumably this was done after the war in 1918.

1909a. Former Union Congregational Church

1909a. Former Union Congregational Church waiting for demolition for replacement to a new hall beside their existing later, less attractive Leigh-on-Sea Church dated 1934. Oolite ashlar and red bricks made by the local Milton Hall company.

1907d. Former Branksome Road Methodist Church

1907d. Former Branksome Road Methodist Church waiting for planning permission for conversion into apartments changing the front and sides of London ashes and red bricks, plus white painted stone sills. Although inscribed Methodist Church on the porch it was an English Presbyterian Church 1920-1925. Foundation stones laid by Thomas Dowsett and others September 21, 1907.

1907c. Southchurch Park United Reformed Church, formerly Congregational

1907c. Southchurch Park United Reformed Church, formerly Congregational. Red brick and white painted ashlar front, with London ashes bricks behind, and modern extension post-dating the Great Tide of February 1953.

1907b. Salvation Army Hall, Southchurch Road

1907b. Salvation Army Hall, Southchurch Road. Sides are London ashes bricks in Flemish bond with red window straight arches and front, with white painted sills.

1907a. Southend Council’s Young People’s Healthy Living Centre, formerly Southchurch Baptist Tabernacle

1907a. Southend Council’s Young People’s Healthy Living Centre, formerly Southchurch Baptist Tabernacle and before 1926 Stornoway Road Misson Hall (? of Belleview Baptists). Note use of English bond London ashes bricks (right) and stretching bond modern yellow malm bricks in replaced window above truncated Jurassic oolite sill.

1905b.Hindu Temple, Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Swami Narayan

1905b. Pale London ashes brick house now used as Hindu Temple, Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Swami Narayan (1781-1830) followed by many U.K. citizens of Gujurati descent.

1905a. Southend Full Gospel Church, formerly Original Peculiar People’s

1905a. Southend Full Gospel Church, formerly Original Peculiar People’s (i.e. not Liberty Section) Chapel, St. Ann’s Road, Southend. Modified and painted later, lacks texts like 1904a, with London ashes brick original sides.

1904a in general view

1904a in general view shows same London ashes and brickwork, with red brick straight arched window heads, and slate roof.

1904a. Wallis Avenue Evangelical Church

1904a. Wallis Avenue Evangelical Church, renamed by similar congregation from Peculiar People’s Chapel with justificatory text on front.

1903b. Greek Orthodox Church of St. Barbaras, St. Phanourios and St. Paul

1903b. Greek Orthodox Church of St. Barbaras, St. Phanourios and St. Paul, formerly St. Paul Reformed Episcopal Church and In 1922 Anglican, showing grave of Alfred Waller who raised the money for the present building in red and Blue Staffordshire Bricks with Jurassic oolite ashlar.

1903a. Wesley Methodist Church, Elm Road Leigh

1903a. Wesley Methodist Church, Elm Road Leigh, originally London ashes brick Wesley hall but has 1903 front of coursed Kentish Ragstone ashlar and Jurassic oolite true ashlar (<3mm mortar thickness).

1902b. Non-conformist Chapel of rest, council Cemetary, Sutton road

1902b. Non-conformist Chapel of rest, council Cemetary, Sutton road; same materials as 1902a.

1902a. Church acting as chapel of rest, Council Cemetary, Sutton Road

1902a. Church acting as chapel of rest, Council Cemetary, Sutton Road. Polygonal Kentish Ragwork Slate and coarse shelly oolite ashlar.

?1901d. The Homeless Action resource Centre

?1901d. The Homeless Action resource Centre, formerly Westcliff Hall Valkerie Road; the first ‘London Road’ baptist’s church. Jurassic oolite ashlar and red brick front, with London ashes bricks on sides.

?1901c Southend Mosque and Masjid, formerly Wesleyan Church and Hall Prittlewell

?1901c Southend Mosque and Masjid, formerly Wesleyan Church and Hall Prittlewell. Some red brick and flushwork arch as in the Moose Hall, but with additional flushwork and Staffordshire Blue Brick courses. White painted ashlar.

?1901b. Moose Hall Number 29, formerly Leigh Primitive Methodist Church

?1901b. Moose Hall Number 29, formerly Leigh Primitive Methodist Church originally The Public Hall Cranleigh Drive. Note red brick and black flint flushwork arch.

?1901a. Trinity Methodist Church and Family Centre, Westcliff

?1901a. Trinity Methodist Church and Family Centre, Westcliff, formerly United Methodist Free Church, white painted ashlar (perhaps Portland Stone) and red brick. Compare with 1901b and 1901c. All three dates are approximate.

1900c. Former Prittlewell Congregational Church with 1908 Harcourt hall

1900c. Former Prittlewell Congregational Church with 1908 Harcourt hall, similarly in red brick with Jurassic oolite ashlar behind on right. Stones dated 6th December 1900 “laid in gratitude to ALMIGHTY GOD for his mercy at the dawn of the twentieth century” by ministers John Granger Sadd and Thomas Dowsett Esq. JP”.

1900b Avenue Baptist Church

1900b Avenue Baptist Church of 1900 with similar oolite mainly in red brick.

1900a. Coleman Street Chapel

1900a. Coleman Street Chapel, formerly a Gospel Hall, Southend. White painted ashlar in red brick front, with London ashes bricks and original metalwork on sides.

1899 Shoeburyness Methodist Church, formerly Primitive

1899. Shoeburyness Methodist Church, formerly Primitive, in painted bricks with the 1950 illustrated bricks (see below) in hall and other unpainted brick in porch. Memorial “laid by Louie Self for the Sunday School” in old front wall.

1898. Anglican St. Alban the Martyr Church, Westcliff

1898. Anglican St. Alban the Martyr Church, Westcliff; showing chancel completed in 1904 of red brick arches and lacing courses in random rubble of patinated white and split black chalk flints and brown Lower Greensand.

1893. Providence Baptist Church, Prittlewell

1893. Providence Baptist Church, Prittlewell, on site of 1854 baptist chapel built by Anthony Smith; rebuilt in red and painted bricks plus stone sills.

1889. Anglican All’ Saints Church, Porterstown

1889. Anglican All’ Saints Church, Porterstown, in red brick and tile, plus coarsely shelly oolite ashlar, all continued in 1934 bay of paler colour.

1887. Salvation Army Citadel, Clarence Street Southend

1887. Salvation Army Citadel, Clarence Street Southend, with red and superior Malm brick gauged window arch within London ashes brickwork; with Clarence Road on left showing St. Martin’s Christian Spiritualist Church (1889 built as Liberal Party hall) in red brick and white painted ashlar and behind it in paler 1961 red bricks the rebuilt Central Baptist Church of 1883.

1885. Anglican St. Mark Church Southend

1885. Anglican St. Mark Church Southend was Hamlet Road Baptist Tabernacle until 1901. Stafford Shire Blue and Superior Malm Bricks, Jurassic oolite ashlar and slate roof.

1883 Former Salvation Army Hall

1883 Former Salvation Army Hall, S. Shoebury survives as a child's nursery on the end of the famous A13 road from London. Originally the A13 continued further and ended beside a now demolished Wesleyan Church of 1893 (Williams 2006, fig 101, Phillimore Chichester).

1881. Chapels of rest, North Road Council Cemetary, Prittlewell

1881. Chapels of rest, North Road Council Cemetary, Prittlewell; London ashes brick with superior Malm brick gauged slate roof and window arches.

1871. Former Wesleyan Methodist Church Westcliff

1871. Former Wesleyan Methodist Church Westcliff; Polygonal Kentish Ragwork and Jurassic oolite ashlar.

1869b. Anglican St. John the Baptist Church, Southend

1869b. Anglican St. John the Baptist Church, Southend. The oldest surviving part is the s. aisle with P.K.R. below. Coarsed Kentish Ragstone Rubble Latter used in most of the building finished in 1912. The window Ashlar a shelly yellowish micrite.

1869a. Roman Catholic Our Lady Help of Christians and St. Helen Empress Church, Westcliff

1869a. Roman Catholic Our Lady Help of Christians and St. Helen Empress Church, Westcliff. London ashes and coloured bricks and Jurassic oolite ashlar. Also Avenue Baptist Church of 1900 with similar oolite mainly in red bricks.

1866.St. Peter and St. Paul Shoeburyness Garrison Church

1866. Now used to sell houses, St. Peter and St. Paul Shoeburyness Garrison Church. P.K.R. and shelly micrite ashlar. Army evidently left their old ordinance behind in 1997.

1865. Now United Reformed Church built as Cliff Town Congregational Church

1865. Now United Reformed Church built as Cliff Town Congregational Church and opened 1866. West front of Polygonal Kentish Ragwork and Jurassic oolite ashlar.

1862 Anglican St. Peter, South Shoebury

1862 Anglican St. Peter, South Shoebury built of local yellow bricks and with a eastern belfry as a National School for 175 children outside the Gunnery School in 1862. An iron chapel of ease for St. Andrews Church was dedicated to St. Peter in 1899 and moved on rollers beside the redundant school in 1911. The latter was dedicated to St. Peter in 1920 and the iron church was replaced by a red brick hall after 100 M.P.H. wind damage in 1987. This information is largely from Judith Shoebureyness a History (2006, Phillimore Chichester). There is also a website - www.southshoebury.org. It is strange that the photographed building is marked a school on the developers plan of 1857 which shows it on "Church Street" with no church on it. The brickwork is largely hidden except near the roof but would have come in the 1860's from the adjacent Shorefield Brickworks.

1450. Anglican St. Clement Church, Leigh-on-Sea

1450. Anglican St. Clement Church, Leigh-on-Sea tower (above) and New Road Methodist Church (below white, flat roof). The train is situated where John Wesley founded the Leigh Methodist Society in 1748.

c.1250b. Anglican St. Lawrence and All Saints’ Church, Eastwood

c.1250b. Anglican St. Lawrence and All Saints’ Church, Eastwood with intact s. aisle under c.1600 gable roof and traffic at sunset. They helped to preserve it by limiting airport expansion plans.

c.1250a Anglican St. Mary the Virgin, North Shoebury

c.1250a Anglican St. Mary the Virgin, North Shoebury with chancel in front. Arches of a removed s. aisle in nave beyond. Ancient gravestones show this change predated the 1885 restoration.

c. 1150 Holy Trinity Southchurch from S.E. churchyard

c. 1150 Holy Trinity Southchurch from S.E. churchyard.

c.1150 Anglican Holy Trinity, Southchurch

c.1150 Anglican Holy Trinity, Southchurch, preserved on south side and with strange unfaced bricks between 1906 and 1932 north extensions.

c. 1100 Anglican St. Andrew Church and brick hall

c. 1100 Anglican St. Andrew Church and brick hall. The tower added c.1300 is like Great Stambridge in being raised with red bricks as an alternative to the Martello Towers built for coast defense in N. Essex in 1804.

?604 Anglican Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Prittlewell

?604 Anglican Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Prittlewell . Early East Saxon Arch filled with one orange London Clay septarium and mainly ragstone and truncated by a pre-1100 long and short work quoin.