St Mary's Church, Bow was a Church of England parish church in Bromley St Leonard's in east London. 'Bromley St Leonard's' was split from the parish of

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in 1536, reusing the priory church from the recently dissolved St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery. It contained significant monumental sculpture. The church was destroyed by bombing in

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and obliterated by the building of the

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approach road, dividing the main residential body of the parish from the river front, though its churchyard survives.

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Bromley St Leonard's Bromley St Leonard's Bromley St Leonard's Demolished buildings and structures in London {{London-Anglican-church-stub