St Philip and St James' Church, Plaistow

That parish in its turn became part of the Parish of the Divine Compassion along with three other parishes in Plaistow and Canning Town - St Mary's, St Matthias' and St Martin's.

[citation needed] It was founded as a small mission church built on Whitwell Road in 1860 by St Mary's Church.

It was taken on by the Society of Divine Compassion in 1894 but destroyed in 1941 during the London Blitz.

[3] It originated in Forest Gate as an iron building opened around 1870 to serve a conventional district.

It became a parish in 1881, formed from those of Emmanuel Church, St John's and All Saints