Church of the Ascension, Victoria Docks

Between 1903 and 1907 a new church was built, with a separate parish split from St Luke's in 1905.

The new parish opened a mission house for women workers in 1909.

[citation needed] From about 1924 writer Mabel Knowles led the St Luke's Mission Church in London's Victoria Docks.

[2] During the Second World War clergy from the Church of the Ascension also served Sandon parish near Chelmsford, since its rector Eric Leicester Andrews had been captured by the Japanese during the fall of Singapore in 1942.

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