Church of St Andrew, Hornchurch

The Grade I listing was made on 7 January 1955 as list entry 1358529, under the statutory name 'Parish Church of St Andrew'. A church has stood on the site since at least 1163, when Henry II granted it to Hornchurch Priory, and the tower and north porch were added in the fifteenth century. The bull emblem on the wall and the bull's-head seal used by the priory on fourteenth-century documents both derive from the place name rather than providing its origin. The interior holds memorials to the daughters of William Blackborne and to Levett Blackborne, a Lincoln's Inn barrister, and a monument to Thomas Clutterbuck, treasurer of the Navy, who died in 1742. The churchyard contains 37 Commonwealth war graves from the First World War and four from the Second. The church stands inside the St Andrews conservation area, and Hornchurch War Memorial nearby is listed Grade II, NHLE 1480701, on 22 April 2022. Hornchurch station, on the District line, is about 900 m south, and bus routes 165, 193, 248, 252, 256, 370, 372, 646 and 652 run within 500 m.