ILFORD HOSPITAL CHAPEL

The Hospital Chapel of St. Mary & St. Thomas of Canterbury
in the London Borough of Redbridge

48 Ilford Hill,
Ilford,
Essex
IG1 2AT

Office of the Friends of the Hospital Chapel:

Peel House,
8 Eastwood Road,
Ilford,
Essex
IG3 8XB
Telephone: 020 8590 2098
e-mail: barbhills@aol.com

Stained Glass in the Chapel

During the chaplaincy of the Revd. James Reynold from 1837 a new centre light
depicting the Crucifixion was inserted in the East Window.    Reynolds died in 1866 and the side lights in the East Window, depicting the Virgin Mary and Thomas à Becket, patron saints of the Chapel, are a memorial to him.

Their installation (c.1885) involved the removal of some late 16th or early 17th century stained glass which was releaded and placed in the window on the north side of the Sanctuary.  It contains arms and interesting merchant marks connected with the Gresham family.

Mid-sixteenth century Flemish glass of similar Renaissance style, brought from All Saints, Epping Upland, was installed later on the south side as part of the
changes introduced by The Revd. Arthur Ingleby, chaplain from 1882 to 1892.

He extended the nave westward and added a south aisle, Lady chapel and new vestries and had installed the west windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by Morris and Company, depicting St. Clement and St. Valentine and dedicated in December 1891 in loving memory of his father Clement Mansfield Ingleby, M.A., LL.D. who lived in Valentines (now Valentines Mansion – the second oldest building in Ilford), and who was a former pewholder of the Chapel.

There is also a fine stained glass rose window over the west door, ascribed to Henry Holiday,  in memory of James Pickett, Verger and Sacristan, who met his death by drowning in the River Roding on August 5th 1890.

These and the windows in the chancel undoubtedly give the Hospital Chapel the finest display of stained glass in Ilford.