St Michael and All Angels, Bromley-by-Bow

About

The Church of St Michael and All Angels was a church in Poplar, London. The Grade II listed 19th-century brick-built church was converted into flats in the 1980's, and is now known as St Michael's Court.

Originally, the site was occupied by a mission chapel run by Winchester College, built in 1861. The church as it stands today was originally built in 1864–1865 by Reverend W. Morris. It was converted into flats in the 1980s. In 1876, a communication was sent from the headmaster of Winchester College asking whether Rev. William Donne, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, would be a suitable man to be appointed to the charge of the Winchester College mission in St Michael and All Angels. He was chosen to head the mission, and did so for five years, during which he built the church of All Hallows, at East India Docks. The Revd Richard Enraght, religious controversialist, was the Curate of the church from 1884 to 1888.

The church has an adjacent war memorial, made from Cornish granite and sculpted by Mr A. R. Adams. The Imperial War Museum's archive describes the memorial as a "Figure of Christ with one hand raised in blessing and the other holding a wreath...