1948. Anglican St. Stephen Church, Alton Gardens, Prittlewell, is dated by the subdivision of the parish and by the resemblance of at least one of the buildings behind the show fronts to a prefabricated concrete air-raid rest centre intended to last for ten years after about 1940. These were to a common feature of Southend schools in the mid 1960’s Earls hall Baptist Church go one in 1946 and kept it for 22 years, and St. Peter’s Prittlewell appears to have kept theirs.