Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
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Millennium Cross at Battersea manor
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...
Other Subjects
Knights Templar
The seal of the Knights incorporated the image of a horse with two riders, the Knights originally being too poor to have a horse each. By papal decree the Knights Templar were dissolved in 1312 a...
St John's House
From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...
Bishop Beilby Porteus
Born York. Bishop of London 1787 - 1809. The first senior church official to support the abolition of slavery. Died at Fulham Palace.
German Lutheran church in London
The history of the German Lutheran Church in London began in earnest with many craftsmen from Hamburg coming here after the Great Fire of 1666 to help in the rebuilding. They were granted the site...
George MacDonald
Poet, novelist and Christian minister. Born Aberdeenshire. Works include: 'At the Back of the North Wind', 'Lilith'. Influenced: C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, Tolkien. Died at Ashtead...