Bow Church

Bow Church

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fullname = St Mary and Holy Trinity Bow
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denomination = Church of England
diocese = Diocese of London
parish = Stepney Episcopal area
division = Tower Hamlets
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founded_date = 17 November 1311
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Bow Church is the parish church of St Mary and Holy Trinity Bow [ [http://www.bowchurches.org.uk/bowgroup/ Churches in Bow ] ] . It is located on an island site in the A12, in Bow, London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

There has been a church on the same site for approximately 700 years. The church was bombed in the Second World War and the bell tower was reconstructed, just after the war.

Early History

The Church (as a chapel of ease) was licensed by Bishop Ralph Baldock of London on 17 November 1311 for the people of Bow and Old Ford within parish of Stepney.

By the end of the 13th century, local people were getting fed up with having togo all the way to St Dunstan's, Stepney to their church, especially in winter, and felt confident (and rich) enough to petition for their own place of worship.

[ [http://www.bowchurches.org.uk/bowgroup/mod/resource/view.php?id=67 Churches in Bow ] ]

n 1556 at Bow, during the reign of Mary I of England, and under the authority of Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, many people, were brought by cart, from Newgate, and burned at the stake, in front of Bow Church, in one of the many swings of the English Reformation. [ [http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/foxe/single/book11/11_1570_2090.html John Foxe's Book of Martyrs] - The Martyrdome of Hugh Lauerocke & Iohn Apprice, at Stratford the Bow. An.1556. May. 15" accessed: 18 Nov 2006]

In 1719, the parish became independent and St Mary Stratford Bow consecrated. The parish also included the Old Ford area which has also been known as North Bow.

References

External links

* [http://www.towerhamletsdeanery.org/parish_listings_stmarybow.html The CoE in Tower Hamlets]

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