| Other possible church names : |
St Joseph Bromley |
| Denomination of the Church |
Roman Catholic |
| The Church Website |
bromley@rcaos.org.uk |
| Number of transcriptions |
528 |
| First year for a transcription |
1887 |
| Last year for a transcription |
1915 |
| Last date a transcription added |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Last date church information changed |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Notes about the Church |
The story of St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Parish began in the Middle Ages, with monks from the Priory of Rochester. However, the history of our church dates back to the late 19th century, when Monsignor Goddard established a mission at Willowbank in Bromley (see timeline below). The first Mass was said in a tin structure in 1892, and the church as we know it was built in 1912.
At around the same time, the Bromley Common area was developing in order to provide homes for the many people employed locally in the Gasworks and Brickworks, along with many agricultural laborers. Many of these being immigrants from both Ireland and the European continent.
The Bromley Common Mission was founded thanks to a legacy from Miss Frances Ellis who was left a considerable fortune by her Farther. She would identify poorer areas that needed churches and then work with both the Clergy and local people to build a community, buying sites and constructing Churches with her own money. She was responsible for the construction of over twenty-two churches in the archdiocese of Southwark alone. |
Those periods with zero data may span several decades. The first may include pre 1530 records.