St Mary's Church, Osterley

About

St Mary's Church, Osterley is a Church of England church on Osterley Road in Osterley, London Borough of Hounslow. Designed by John Taylor the Younger in a Neo-Gothic imitation of the Decorated style it was funded by Henry Daniel Davies, who built its Spring Grove estate of generally large houses, now a more mixed housing neighbourhood, in which the early low-density large houses have mostly been subdivided and significant infill housing has been built including blocks of flats. In 1855 it was said that when the church was opened it would be "placed at the disposal of an able and evangelical minister" and has remained in that churchmanship ever since.

The church was consecrated and was assigned a parish taken from the ancient parish of Isleworth later the same year. Young designed it as it stands with light stone facings concealing bricks and with two tiers of stone-mullioned (split), wide, pointed arch windows in the central nave particularly for galleries – never needed nor added. The pillared, vaulted nave has stained-glass windows by Heaton, Butler and Bayne and an offset, spired belfry clocktower.

The church has a tall pipe organ, bright suspended lighting, and a high altar beneath...