The burial place of the heart of Roesia of Dover, great great grand-daughter of the founder of this abbey Richard de Lucy.
SE2, Abbey Road, Lesnes Abbey ruins
The plaque is in the middle of the rear wall.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Roesia of Dover
Born in Lucé, near Domfront, Normandy, his name is also spelt 'de Luci'. He i...
Great great grand-daughter of Richard de Lucy, founder of Lesnes Abbey. All t...
Pronounced Lez-ness. Founded by Richard de Lucy, as a penance for his role in...
City of Westminster The Queen's Hall, 1893 - 1941, site of Britain's leading concert hall where Sir Henry Wood founded the promenade con...
This building houses the Rak recording studios. Rak Records was founded in 1969 by Mickie Most who sold it to EMI in 1983 but he kept the...
Charles Lamb lived with his sister at Colebrooke Cottage from 1823 - 1827. Of this home he wrote "a cheerful dining room is studded all o...
London County Council Field Marshal, Viscount Allenby, 1861-1936, lived here, 1928-1936.
There are two versions of this plaque, identically worded, attached to either side of the entrance; this one, to the right, photographs b...
Banker, politician and scientific writer. Born at 29 Eaton Place. He went into his father's banking business at the age of 14 and became a partner in 1856. Entered parliament in 1870, and succeeded...
One of the best known novels of Charles Dickens, which follows the fate of an orphaned workhouse boy. It has been filmed several times, and was turned into the stage musical (and later film) Oliver...
His excellency Alfonso Lopez-Pumarejo, 1886 - 1959, ambassador to the court of St James's, twice president of the Republic of Colombia, l...
Note: "Quincey" seems to be the accepted spelling rather than the "Quincy" on the plaque.
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