A Grade II listed building. It is one of England's oldest Unitarian churches, and belongs to the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. It is known as 'the birthplace of feminism' because of its connections with Mary Wollstonecraft.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Newington Green Unitarian Church
Newington Green Church built 1708, enlarged 1860. Oldest non-conformist place...
Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.
Its full name was the Church of St Mary, St Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins. The origin of the nick name supposedly derives either from a sign of an axe over the east end of the church or from a reli...
Built in 1852 as a Methodist Wesleyan chapel with seats for 1,000. In 1917 the building was acquired and adapted for Catholic use as the Holy Apostles church, a chapel of ease, served by clergy fro...
Architect and prolific writer of church hymns (nearly 2000!). Born Wapping. Died Homerton where he was a church warden at St. Barnabas.
Anglican vicar. Born Sussex, his father being a cousin of Lord Jellicoe. Worked in the slums of Somers Town, north London in the 1920s. He set up the St Pancras House Improvement Society and persu...
