Editing Welling (section)

== Landmarks ==
[[File:Welling cannon.jpg|thumb|Russian Cannon from [[Crimean War]], located at Welling Corner]]A large Russian cannon is located at Welling corner. This Russian weapon is a 36-pounder carronade (calibre 6.75&nbsp;inches – weight 17 cwt) of a type used during the [[Crimean War]] (1854 to 1860), displayed on a simple wooden replica carriage. The carronade was in service from 1780 to 1860 and is now on loan from the [[Royal Artillery Museum]] in [[Woolwich]] as a reminder of Welling's early association with the [[Royal Arsenal]], Woolwich, when huts at East Wickham were built as homes for munitions workers in the Great War.

The former Foster's School building in [[Upper Wickham Lane]] is a local landmark. The school relocated to Westbrooke Road in Welling and its original site was converted to residential use (retaining the old Grade II listed main school building and headmaster's house).

Further north of the original site is the 12th-century former St Michael's, East Wickham church, now used by a [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] congregation. A new St Michael's church was built next door in 1933, and the original church became a [[chapel of ease]]. It was declared redundant in 1973 and acquired by the Orthodox the following year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/EAS08.pdf|title=Former Churches of the Diocese of Southwark: St Michael, East Wickham|access-date=18 February 2021}}</ref> Another church in the area is [[St Mary's Church, Welling]], a daughter church of St Michael's, which was built in 1955 and which contains a number of examples of 20th-century liturgical art.<ref name="SouthwarkAnglican">{{Cite web|url=https://southwark.anglican.org/find-a-church/plumstead/welling-st-mary-the-virgin|title=Diocese of Southwark: St Mary the Virgin, Welling|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref>