Goodmayes Congregational Church Memorial Plaque

Goodmayes Congregational Church Memorial Plaque. Photo by Trevor Cottrell.
Address 
Thames North Synod & Trust Archive
145 Stepney Way
Stepney
TH
E1 3EE

The Goodmayes Congregational Church memorial commemorates seven men who died in the First World War. The memorial takes the form of a brass plaque, framed in wood, with black inscription. An epitaph is presented at the top, with the names of those who died listed beneath in a single column.

In 1969, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (on Goodmayes Road) merged with Goodmayes Congregational Church (Broomhill Road). It was decided that the new church would be based on Broomhill Road and renamed St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church.

As a result of declining congregation numbers, St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church closed its doors on the 8th October 2006 and the building was demolished the following year. This memorial is currently under the care of the Thames North Synod of the United Reformed Church, within their Trust Archive.

Sources:

The History of St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Goodmayes 1902-1998 by Trevor Cottrell (at Redbridge Information and Heritage)

Information kindly provided by:

Reverend David Skipp of the Thames North Synod Office

Trevor Cottrell, former member and Elder of St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church

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Find out more about some of the individuals featured on this memorial by selecting from one of the names below.

To view a complete list of every individual commemorated on this memorial, please click on the memorial inscription link above.

Biography available.

Name Regiment Year of death
Arthur William Whittingham Royal Field Artillery 1917
Douglas Wilfred Gretton London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 1916
Francis Reginald Abbott Coldstream Guards 1915
Frederick Walter Wadeson East Surrey Regiment 1918
Harold Brewster Smith Dorsetshire Regiment 1918
Horace Edward Gretton London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) 1917
William Parker Suttle Royal Air Force 1919