[1] A new ecclesiastical parish for Great Ilford was split off from that of Barking in 1830 and its church building completed the following year.

His daughter, Mary Hall-Dare (d. April 1908), laid the foundation stone and the church was opened on June 9, 1831, by Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, “and the day was spent in general festivity from the highest to the lowest classes”.

[2] Its first vicar was appointed in 1837 - its advowson was initially vested in All Souls College, Oxford.

Hubert Valentine Eardley-Wilmot in 1916 by the artist Edward Arthur Fellowes Prynne.

[4] One of the stations was dedicated to the Vicar's younger brother, Gerald Eardley-Wilmot, who died of wounds fighting in France that year.