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Notes: People have lived in what we now call Stepney since about a thousand years before the birth of Christ. It is thought that the first church was built here sometime between St Augustine's conversion of the English in the 6th century, and 952 when a second church was erected on the site by St Dunstan.
The first church was probably wooden, and dedicated to All Saints, but it is thought that St Dunstan built his church here in stone. No part of this original structure survives, apart from a tenth century stone relief panel of the Crucifixion, which you can see under the east window.
Some time after St Dunstan was made a saint in 1029, the church was rededicated to him. In 1896 the ancient dedication of All Saints was revived, and the two names have been used together ever since.
In the middle ages, Stepney became a favoured country retreat for lords and merchants. St Dunstan's became a place of wealth and importance. It was in this period that the building took its present shape, with the chancel built in the thirteenth century and the nave in the fifteenth.
Stepney was in the heart of intellectual life during the Reformation of the sixteenth century. John Colet, Dean of St Pauls and St Dunstan's most famous vicar, was one of the leading scholars of the "new learning" from which the Reformation sparing. His friends Erasmus and Thomas More were regular visitors to his Stepney mansion.
This mansion was the home of Thomas Cromwell from 1534 and it was from here that he masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Successive rectors were staunch supporters of the new Protestantism, and the parish was staunchly Parliamentarian during the Civil War.
The population of London's East End grew hugely in the next two centuries, and in the eighteenth century the parish was split, with new churches built in such areas as Bethnal Green, Spitalfields and Limehouse, to minister to the vast numbers of people who now sought work in local industries.
By Victorian times, Stepney had a reputation as one of the worst slums in London. Successive rectors ministered tirelessly for the poor of the parish. In the second world war, the church miraculously escaped the Blitz that devasted houses all around it, losing only its windows.
Today's St Dunstan's is still a vibrant community of faith. Visitors comment on the remarkable spiritual atmosphere: here burdens are shared and the faithful gather to be nourished and fed in the Eucharist, going out into the community as instruments of God's love.
Our patron saint was probably the most powerful and influential churchman in England before the Norman Conquest.
Born in Baltonsborough, Somerset, in the early tenth century, Dunstan was educated at the nearby Glastonbury Abbey, where he later became Abbot. He was Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of Edgar the Peaceable. Under Dunstan's patronage, art and learning flourished.
He was a monk, statesman and monastic reformer with a firm belief in the spiritual value of manual labour, which he put into practice himself by working metal.
You can see Dunstan's symbol, a pair of tongs, in one of the modern stone spandrels over the west door of our church. According to legend, the Devil came to tempt Dunstan as he worked at his anvil and the saint tweaked his nose with red-hot pincers.
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Latitude: 51.5112944, Longitude: -0.0543611
ChristenedMatches 1 to 37 of 37
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Last name, First name(s) |
Christened |
Person ID |
1 |
ALLARS, William Henry | 22 Oct 1843 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I5405 |
2 |
ANSELL, John William | 2 Oct 1859 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I2082 |
3 |
BUCKNELL, Hannah | 8 Nov 1818 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15075 |
4 |
BUCKNELL, Jane Ann | 24 Aug 1814 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I20581 |
5 |
COCHRANE, Elizabeth Eliza | 19 Nov 1876 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I593 |
6 |
DYKE, Joseph Edward | 6 Dec 1830 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I7507 |
7 |
ELSON, Ann Elizabeth | 24 Aug 1849 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I1032 |
8 |
ENEVER, Ann Catharine | 24 Feb 1828 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15090 |
9 |
ENEVER, Catharine Charlotte | 17 Feb 1833 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15092 |
10 |
ENEVER, Frederick Henry | 21 Mar 1880 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I14801 |
11 |
ENEVER, Frederick John | 23 May 1824 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15088 |
12 |
ENEVER, Harriet | 20 Oct 1831 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I23701 |
13 |
ENEVER, Jessie Sarah Lee | 24 Jan 1854 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I14368 |
14 |
ENEVER, Robert Francis Freeman | 1 Aug 1830 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15091 |
15 |
ENEVER, William James | 12 Dec 1875 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I14804 |
16 |
ENNEVER, John | 13 Mar 1774 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I38 |
17 |
FOULGER, Isabella Elizabeth | 25 Jun 1843 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I7189 |
18 |
FOULGER, John James | 25 Jun 1843 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I31646 |
19 |
FOULGER, Mary Ann | 11 Mar 1848 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I31709 |
20 |
HARROLD, John | 20 Oct 1845 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I3790 |
21 |
HARROLD, Maria Jane | 16 Oct 1842 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I1041 |
22 |
HENEVER, Harriett Louisa | 7 Oct 1877 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I14809 |
23 |
HODGINS, Bella | 10 Dec 1876 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I4701 |
24 |
HODGINS, Eliza | 29 Aug 1869 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I4699 |
25 |
HODGINS, Ellen Matilda | 26 Nov 1865 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I4696 |
26 |
HODGINS, Henry | 20 Sep 1874 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I4700 |
27 |
HODGINS, Rosetta | 26 Jan 1879 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I319 |
28 |
HODGINS, Susan | 20 Apr 1873 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I29604 |
29 |
HODGINS, William | 17 Oct 1866 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I4697 |
30 |
HOLMES, Charles Benjamin | 8 Jun 1828 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I20991 |
31 |
HOLMES, William Matthew | 19 Mar 1826 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I20993 |
32 |
HUTCHINGS, Alice | 27 Oct 1850 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I21857 |
33 |
PALMER, Anne Alice | 11 Mar 1855 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I15098 |
34 |
PUGH, George | 3 Dec 1820 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I1337 |
35 |
PUGH, William Moore | 21 Nov 1830 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I3461 |
36 |
REED, James George | 15 Aug 1827 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I5258 |
37 |
SHERROTT, Teresa Ann | 8 Jan 1843 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | I136 |
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WitnessMatches 1 to 2 of 2
MarriedMatches 1 to 22 of 22
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Family (spouse) |
Married |
Family ID |
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ANSELL / ROBERTS | 8 Apr 1861 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F663 |
2 |
BENNETT / HOLMES | 24 Apr 1852 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F6529 |
3 |
BIRCHELL / INCE | 1 Sep 1844 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F10328 |
4 |
BOYTON / MORTLOCK | 2 Jan 1838 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F862 |
5 |
BROWN / ENEVER | 31 May 1821 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F5076 |
6 |
BUCKNELL / GODSELL | 1 Jun 1825 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F6789 |
7 |
CLAUSON / SPREADBOROUGH | 29 Apr 1833 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F1450 |
8 |
COOPER / ENNEVER | 1 Jul 1793 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F690 |
9 |
ENEVER / HARRINGTON | 31 Oct 1825 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F4221 |
10 |
ENNEVER / JACOBS | 26 Sep 1793 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F160 |
11 |
ENNEVER / PONDER | 4 Aug 1796 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F16 |
12 |
EWEN / PORTER | 1887 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F5081 |
13 |
GREEN / DOWNING | 18 Jul 1857 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F847 |
14 |
HOLMES / NEVILL | 9 Oct 1854 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F6488 |
15 |
HUDSON / ENEVER | 27 Jun 1818 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F9622 |
16 |
READ / SPREADBOROUGH | 12 Sep 1825 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F1465 |
17 |
RICHARDSON / ENEVER | 28 May 1798 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F8052 |
18 |
SHERROTT / DYKE | 20 Mar 1841 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F219 |
19 |
SPREADBOROUGH / BROWN | 24 Apr 1825 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F1466 |
20 |
TODD / KING | 12 May 1889 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F3711 |
21 |
WESTWOOD / ENNEVER | 29 Jul 1878 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F505 |
22 |
WOOD / SMITH | 30 Sep 1832 | Parish Church, St Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex | F5752 |
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