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Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen's Church, Westcliff-on-Sea

1862 establishments in England20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United KingdomChurches in Southend-on-Sea (town)Gothic Revival architecture in EssexGothic Revival church buildings in England
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St Helen's Church (formally Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen's Church) is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Westcliff-on-Sea in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. It was founded in 1862 and built in 1867. Further extensions were made to the church from 1898 to 1903, designed by Alexander Scoles. It is situated on Milton Road near to the corner of St Helen's Road, next to St Bernard's High School. It is a Gothic Revival church, the first post-Reformation Catholic church to be built in Southend and a Grade II listed building.

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Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen's Church, Westcliff-on-Sea
St Helen's Road, Southend-on-Sea Prittlewell

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