Editing Hanwell (section)

===St Mellitus Church===
[[File:StMellitusHanwell.jpg|thumb|St Mellitus, Hanwell|right]]
Until the early years of the 20th century all of Hanwell had been one parish, St Mary's.  The inadequacy of one church to serve a growing population is indicated by the rebuilding of St Mary's church in 1842 to cater for the increased number of church goers and then by the building in 1877 of St Mark's as an additional church serving the south of the parish.  By the turn of the century this was no longer sufficient and it was decided to create an additional parish, St Mellitus, the first in the Anglican Communion to bear that name.

The church building is an imposing Gothic style building of the Edwardian period situated on a busy cross roads in the heart of Hanwell. It was designed by the office of Sir [[Arthur Blomfield]] in 1909, built by Messrs J Dorey & Co of Brentford and consecrated by the Bishop of London, Rt Rev [[Arthur Winnington-Ingram]] in March 1910. It is a landmark building with a distinctive gable end housing three recently restored bells.

The parish was formed in 1908 and lay between the railway and Elthorne Park, thus including St Mark's as a chapel of ease.  While St Mark's would continue in this fashion as a subsidiary church for the parish, it was clear that a new, bigger parish church was needed and so Sir [[Arthur Blomfield]] was commissioned to design it. With a capacity of 800 people it was designated St [[Mellitus]], the name probably derived from the legend, propagated by Sir Montagu Sharpe, the Middlesex historian, that Mellitus, Bishop of the East Saxons, was instrumental in the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons of Hanwell. Funds for the new church were raised from the sale of [[Holy Trinity Gough Square|Holy Trinity in Gough Square]] in the city of London.

In 1980, with the retirement of the then vicar of St Mark's, the two parishes were merged, now known as St Mellitus with St Mark's.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}