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' December 8, 1940, Destruction of St Mary and St Joseph Church: Opened in September 1856 on Gate Street (which later became part of Canton Street), the church was a striking Kentish rag-stone cruciform building designed by William Wilkinson Wardell. It was highly regarded as one of the finest Catholic churches in London. The original Catholic church and its adjoining presbytery on Canton Street in Poplar were destroyed by a direct hit during the bombing. The parish was forced to worship in the nearby Holy Child School for 14 years. A new, distinctively modern church designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott was constructed between 1951 and 1954 to replace the destroyed 1856 building. '

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