1955a. St. John Fisher Roman Catholic Church, Manners Way, Prittlewell, better known as Cuckoo corner on the A127 from London. The Catholic directory conflicts with Kelly’s 1940 in suggesting a 1939 date for the site. My photograph shows the 1955 building with a white statue of the former Bishop of Rochester (c.1469-1535) reproduced better in coloured Tudor clothes on the 1964 church of smaller, similarly smooth red and some modern blue bricks. The illustrated car park wall shows the melted local bricks termed Burrs. The saint is also local Rochester being opposite Southend behind the Isle of Grain Erasmus reported that ‘there is a persistent rumour here, probably true, that when the King discovered that the Bishop of Rochester had been appointed to the college of Cardinals by Paul III, he speedily had him led out of prison and beheaded. In this fashion did the King bestow upon him the red hat”.