All Saints, Poplar
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | High Church / Anglo-Catholic |
| Website | www |
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| Dedication | All Saints |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Poplar |
| Deanery | Tower Hamlets Deanery |
| Diocese | Diocese of London |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | The Revd Jane Hodges |
| NSM(s) | The Revd Tom Duncan The Revd Jenny Sheldon |
| Laity | |
| Reader(s) | Helen Palmer Modupe Olufunmilayo Kenku |
| Organist(s) | Brian Hagger |
| Churchwarden(s) | Arthur Redway |
Coordinates: 51°30′35″N 0°0′44″W / 51.50972°N 0.01222°W
All Saints' Church, Poplar, is a church in Newby Place, Poplar, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is the Church of England parish church of Poplar. It was built in 1821-3 to serve the newly created parish.
The church was designated a Grade II listed building on 19 July 1950.
The true foundations had been laid 425 years earlier, when in 1396, the small village of ‘Popelar’ with Blackwall had been granted to the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of St Mary de Graces just by the Tower of London, and came to be known as one of the Tower Hamlets in the parish of Stepney. The settlements provided some of the labour-force for the expanding City of London, including the militiamen at the Tower, as well as crops and livestock from the newly drained marshland. By the time the land was sold off to private families under Henry VIII, the Blackwall area had also established a thriving shipbuilding and repairing industry.
St Dunstan's, Stepney, was then the Parish Church, and baptismal records from the early 17th century show that just over half the fathers in Poplar were occupied in river or sea trades. In 1614 the spice traders of the East India Company set up their main shipyard at Blackwall with their headquarters in Poplar, served by a company Chapel (now St Matthias Old Church) built in 1652 on Poplar High Street.
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