English church

The plaque says the St Thomas à Becket Anglican Church, known as simply "the English church" for many years, would have been destroyed without her - after she hid its artwork to save it from damage, smothered fires as they started.

By then Mabel was the caretaker of "the English church", a Church of England church originally established because of the trade links between the city and the UK.

"Herbert Howells was probably the greatest composer of English church music in the last 100 years," he said.

The emergence of an independent, reformed English church created at least three categories of Christian believers.

It dates to about 1887, designed by an English church architect and expanded by the L.A. architect who designed Riverside’s Mission Inn.