Woodford Wells

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Hart's Grove

HartsHospital.  Italianate lodge to announces mansion, now a nursing home with housing in the former grounds which is a rebuilding of  1816.  Harts originally built 1617 for Sir Humphery Handforth and demolished 1816. Curved link to a low service building. The grounds were famous in the 18th for the botanical garden of Richard Warner together with 1775 restored fragments remain from a sham ruined abbey of flint and brick.EastHamHospital becane ‘Hart House’ in 1920 and specialised in chest complaints.  Nurses home from 1916. High Road

Site of Wells, Near Three Wells public house on west side to north of New Wells pub, near 9 mile stone, 1768 neglected, St Thomas of Canterbury, Friary
Horse and Well was Woodford Well in 1838, nineteenth century brick with whitewash, was Horse and Groom in 1770s then Horse and Wells 1784
St Thomas of CanterburyR.C., 1895-6 by Canon A.J.C. Scales. red brick with long pantiled roof. Sanctuary with glass doors to the Blessed Sacrament chapel. Was originally used by the adjacent Franciscan convent. slab to the foundress, Henrietta Pelham-Clinton, Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, 1913 represented as St Mary Magdalene .
Cottages tile hunt in a row
The Castle Hotel a grander inn. Georgian. Stuccoed. Replaced The Castle and Two Brewers. 
352, a suburban interloper, a former Midland Bank, 1920 by T.B. Whinney, still in the Midland's pre-First World War Italian Renaissance style; only one storey but given pomp by corner dome and balustraded parapet.
403, a haphazard rural hamlet remain, with five- bay house set at an angle to the road
Elm Terrace, partly stuccoed and a little grander, is dated l873
High Elms, three storeys with cornice, looks early c19.
Woodford  GreenSchool. Gabled one-storey building with lancet windows, built as a NationalSchool, "erected by voluntary subscription 1820'.  Taken over by the School Board, enlarged 1889 and later.
455-7 shops in an Italianate mode.
449. Harris's, with well-preserved butcher's shop interior, disused.
Mens’ Club landmark at the end of the green is a former Methodist Free Church, built in 1869, originally in Gothic style. After Townsend's church was built it was adapted as a club and presented in 1904 by the local benefactor J.R. Roberts, 'for the benefit of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood'. The Gothic window was replaced by a roughcast gable wall and balcony, and the spire to the corner tower by a domed cap. Repaired 2004 by Hibbs & Walsh Associates.

Inmans Road

Named after property here owned by Widow Inmans
All Saints Church 1874 by F.E.C. Streatfeild. The church with its tower forms a landmark, closing the end of Woodford Green. First World War memorials with bronze memorial plaque near the latter. 1943, by Reginald Hall-Ward. St Cedd and Bradwell chapel.
Church Hall 1907, with attractively homely detail, arch heads of tile and tile-hung walls.
Vicarage, 1907, with attractively homely detail, arch heads of tile and tile-hung walls.
Knighton Estate
Developed by Southend on Sea Estates Ltd. Above average quality

Links Road

19th cottages

Former temperance coffee house probably converted from a BritishSchool.

Monkhams Avenue
Archetypal early C20 high-class suburbia: houses in a variety of sedate vernacular styles set in trim gardens.               
17 Attlee lived

Mornington Road.
Convent of the Holy family of Bordeauxremains Conventbuildings of 1898 are now the Science Dept. ofTrinity R.C. School. .  House called The Oaks, used as the convent from 1920.Home of Henrietta Pelham-Clinton, Dowager Duchess of Newcastle,

Savill Row
Wesleyan Chapel

Salway Hill.
Hurst House c. 1714, is striking from a distance, but much restored. Grand six-bay front.  Wrought-iron garden railing and gates. The interior rebuilt after a fire 1935, but retains its staircase. Formerly with outbuildings and later wings, demolished by the 1930s. Sometimes called 'The Naked Beauty' after statue in the grounds, now gone'. Cricket pitch 1735.

The Green
Drinking fountain
United Free Church High Elms, Built in  1904 for Woodford Union church, a flourishing congregation formed in 1875 from members of Congregational, Baptist and Methodist churches. Joseph Hocking, who became minister in 1901, insisted on a new church, which was designed in 1904, by the Arts and Crafts architect Harrison Townsend. A large and unusual building in a free Byzantine style, boldly detailed, but alas much simplified from Townsend's original designs. Brick with stone banding, gable with a deep, round-headed arch with stone bands, enclosing a big lunette over two stone door-ways. Smaller entrance in the base of Townsend's unbuilt tower. This was a highly unusual design drawing on symbolic geometric forms: a domed top over an upper part with curved core recessed behind square corner piers. A meeting hall beyond the main church was also planned, but economy prevailed. The church was repaired and remodelled by Craig Hall & Rutley, 1991. Inside, the bay was divided off, with an inserted floor. The impressive main space lies beneath a domical vault supported by broad, unmoulded brick arches with stone bands, springing from marble-faced piers. Shallow transepts and sanctuary with transverse arches. Big lunette windows in the transepts, smaller ones at clerestory level in the sanctuary. Memorial chapel off the transept by Michael Farcy, 1963, with abstract window and glass mural by Laurence Lee. Of the same time five small ceiling paintings on the main vault, by Jean Manson dark, inadequate in this grand setting. Small alabaster and green marble War Memorial, a delicate tablet.

Monkhams
The Firs
Statue 9ft bronze of Churchill M.P. for the area from 1924 to 1964 by David McFall, 1959.

The Square
18thhouses. Where the small-scale character has been preserved by some sympathetic late C20 infilling.

Woodford Wells
Built up in 1890s. Remains of Woodford Row village. Once a little c18 spa, now has miscellaneous later c19 and early c20 housing
5 Lanhurst two storey red brick with weatherboard back
Ludwig Finkin sugar refinery