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Holy Cross: Church Road, Fryerns
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Location: Holy Cross Church
Photographer: Bix
Year of photo: 30/11/2002
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Location: Holy Cross Church
Photographer: Bix
Year of photo: 26/10/2002
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Location: Holy Cross Church
Photographer: Bix
Year of photo: 26/10/2002
Copyright: Basildon History Online
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Holy Cross church in Church Road, Basildon. On 24th March
1950 the church, along with a number of others in the Basildon area, became a listed building on the
government departments' Ministry of Works list of buildings of historic interest. The church has
since become a Grade II* listed building. Garden of Remembrance
Basildon's first Garden of Remembrance was
created in the old churchyard. A 600 sq. ft. lawn with shrubs in each corner was
officially opened on 3rd May, 1970 by Rev. Brian Buxton in a special service attended by the Chairman
of Basildon Council, Fred Champ, M.B.E. Basildon Rectory |
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The former Basildon Rectory once stood in Rectory Road, Basildon, close to the junction with Church Road. It was demolished around 1960
as the site was required for the Ford Tractor plant which opened in 1964. Rectory Road
Rectory Road -
not to be confused with Rectory Road in Pitsea - originally ran between Pipps Hill Road and Gardiners Lane. In the early 1970s
during the creation of 'Aquatels Zoo and Ecology Centre' a small
section of the road at the Pipps Hills Road junction was retained and renamed Pipps Hill Close and diverted to open out into
Cranes Farm Road. This was still residential up to
the early 1970s when the last house was demolished to make way for the new zoo, which later became the Festival Leisure Hall
in the 1980s. In the late 1990s the Festival Leisure Park was created and all traces of the road disappeared. At the
Gardiners Lane South exit the road is still evident, though now called Gardiners Close. Here the road is sparsely residential
but in recent years is beginning to disappear as house development, as part of the long planned Gardiners Lane regeneration
scheme, starts to take shape.
In more recent times the church has been twinned with St. Andrew's in The Fremnells under the title St. Andrew's with Holy Cross.
List of St. Andrew's rectors from 1955:-
| John King (Priest-in-Charge) | September 1955 - September 1961 |
| Colin Shaw | January 1956 |
| Keith Wood | December 1961 - April 1970 |
| Peter Fisher | September 1970 - February 1972 |
| Owen Leigh-Williams | June 1972 - October 1985 |
| Tony Matty | April 1987 - June 1992 |
| John Carr | September 1993 - September 2005 |
| Margaret Shaw | November 2006 - May 2016 |
| Jane Richards | 19th July, 2017 - |
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Text researched and written 2005.
Copyright © 2005, B. Cox - Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. |
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