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 church is a functional and economical octagonal design of the 1970s. It lies behind the presbytery, a listed timber... Read More
A Puginian Gothic church of 1856 by Daniel Cubitt Nichols. The church was built under the patronage of William, twelfth... Read More
Converted in the early years of the twentieth century from a late medieval barn. The early twentieth-century additions... Read More
A large and rather utilitarian brick church of the 1930s, with a striking and original west front.A Mass centre for... Read More
An interesting design of the 1960s, built on a budget to allow for later extension. It is on the edge of an interwar... Read More
A well-designed post-war church of traditional form by H. Bingham Towner, an established architect of Catholic... Read More
A post-Vatican II church on an octagon-within-a-square-plan. The most significant furnishing is the statue of St Anne... Read More
A simple cruciform church of the 1960s by the local architect David Rodney Burles, externally fairly plain, but... Read More
A relatively modest brick Gothic building of 1910 by local architect B.R. Parkes. The church forms a good local group... Read More
As built in the 1980s, this small and utilitarian design is of note less for its architecture and more as an ecumenical... Read More
A modern (1992) centrally-planned church replacing an earlier building destroyed by fire. The low, broad tower is... Read More
A new church, designed to evoke the great aisled medieval barns of Essex, reflecting its location in a sensitive... Read More
