History
The church of THE HOLY CROSS, Hornchurch Road, originated in 1920, when a hut, formerly
a chapel in the army camp at Grey Towers, was re-erected at the corner of Malvern
Road and Park Lane, to serve as a mission church and social centre for north-west
Hornchurch. The mission was at first run jointly by the Church Army and the vicar
of Hornchurch, but in 1922 the vicar assumed complete responsibility. A new parish,
taken out of St. Andrew, was formed in 1925, the advowson of the vicarage being vested
in New College and the bishop alternately. In 1933 a permanent church was built on
a new site at the corner of Hornchurch Road and Park Lane.
From: 'Hornchurch: Religious history', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 7
(1978), pp. 46-51. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42813.
Date accessed: 20 August 2008.
