Visiting St Mary’s church Osterley

A short walk from Osterley tube station is this neo-gothic church, built when all around here were just fields and weren’t called Osterley.This is St Mary’s Osterley, built by the property developer Henry Daniel Davies, who built the Spring Grove estate of which it formed a part. When the church was built, this part of the estate was still fields, with just a few streets but no houses.
The intention was that houses, for suitable mostly retired army officers, would follow quickly, but