Church Of St Mellitus

St Mellitus Church in Hanwell is an Anglican parish church built in 1909 by Sir Arthur Blomfield & Sons. It is constructed of brown and red brick with Bath stone dressings, and has a tiled roof. The church plan comprises a five-bay nave with north-south oriented aisles, a chancel at the north end, a transept on the east side, entrance porches at the north-east and south-east, a vestry at the north-east, and a link to the vicarage at the north-west.

The south end, the liturgical west, features a tall gabled bell-cote above a two-light lancet window set between buttresses, and a sloping roof to the baptistery to the left of the gabled porch. The east side, the liturgical south, has nine paired lancet windows at clearstorey level, a sloping roof over the aisle with similar paired lancets, a gabled transept to the right of the porch, and a hipped roof vestry to the right. The north end, the liturgical east, has a five-light arched window with cinquefoil tracery, and a small gabled porch below. Triangular clearstorey windows with quatrefoils are present in the chancel, one on the liturgical south side, and three on the liturgical north side. A single-storey link connects to the vestry at the north-west corner, in front of a side chapel which has a three-light trefoil-headed window and a three-bay west return.

Inside, the church has a five-bay nave with side aisles, featuring an arcade of wide cut brick arches carried on stone octagonal piers. The roof is open with hammerbeams alternating with braced tie-beams. The chancel has a mosaic floor, sedilia, a piscina, and an organ loft, with a coffered timber ceiling. A triple arcade is located at the south, the liturgical west, with a font in the centre. A side chapel is situated at the north-west corner, the liturgical north-east.

Notable fixtures include a 1930 east window by Christopher Webb, depicting "Christ in Majesty" over St Michael and Virgin and Child, Annunciation and St George & the Dragon in the upper quatrefoils. The liturgical east window of the side chapel, depicting a crucifixion (after Perugino) by E. Stanley Watkins, commemorates Scout Owen Harwood d.1917; a two-light side window in the chapel depicts the Adoration of the Magi. A circular stone font is supported by six red marble colonnettes with foliate capitals. The church also contains a plain lectern, pulpit, and bench pews.

The church is an imposing brick Gothic design from the prominent late Victorian practice of Sir Arthur Blomfield and Sons. It is named in honour of St Mellitus, the first Bishop of London.