The Church of St Mary, Northolt probably marks the site where pre-Christian Saxons settled in the seventh century. ‘Northolt’ comes from an Anglo-Saxon names meaning ‘the northern neck of land’. When Christianity came to the area a wooden church would have been built, probably in the eleventh century. The Domesday Book of 1086 mentions that Geoffrey de Mandeville had held ‘Northala’, as it had become known, since the Norman Conquest. At that time there was a priest who had about sixty acres of land and (presumably) a house.
The current building dates back to 1230 in parts. The building, like all buildings has been added to and changed through the years to suit those worshipping in it. A chancel and sanctuary was added in the 1500’s, a gallery for musicians in 1703 and a vestry added in the 1950’s. More recently it was extensively restored thanks to generous funding during 2006-8 and re-dedicated by the Bishop of London at the end of this in November 2008.
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