The Diocese of Brentwood was founded on 20 July 1917 out of territory formerly in the Archdiocese of Westminster. It covers the county of Essex, including the unitary authorities of Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea and the east London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Westminster in the Province of Westminster. The cathedral is in Brentwood, and is dedicated to St Mary and St Helen. 115 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2012).
The cathedral church of the Diocese of Brentwood, and the first Classical cathedral to be built in England since... Read More
An unassuming modern building, part of a group with the nineteenth century presbytery and former school, which makes... Read More
A modern (1991) church by Gerald Murphy, attached to the modest former (1935) church/hall erected for the Pallottine... Read More
A large church in the Early Christian style built in the early 1950s. The design is very similar to one used by the... Read More
The principal Catholic church in Basildon New Town. A dignified and articulate early work by John Newton of Burles... Read More
A pleasant modern (1991) design in a traditional, almost vernacular, idiom. The octagonal church is the centrepiece of... Read More
A modern (1980) centrally planned church which forms part of a complex with the small presbytery and slightly earlier... Read More
A modern brick church in a mixed Gothic style built to serve the northern part of the 1920s London County Council... Read More
A simple but boldly-designed modern church of the mid-1970s. The addition of a large modern hall on one side has... Read More
A church in Lombard Romanesque style by Edward Goldie, built in two phases and extended by a west porch in 1981. Early... Read More
An elegant free Gothic design built just before the onset of the Second World War, largely funded by Dr Richard... Read More
A Mass centre was established at Brightlingsea in about 1904, in the house of a Mrs Baldwin at 73 Sydney Street, served... Read More
