Plaque

St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter

Inscription

Site of St. Margaret's Church (13th century) and the Borough Compter.
Historic Southwark 

Site: War memorials & Borough Compter (3 memorials)

SE1, Borough High Street, 32 - 34, a pub (name keeps changing)

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter

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Borough Compter

Courthouse and prison. The building was part of St Margaret's Church, which w...

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St Margaret's Church

The church was in existence from at least the early 12th century. At the refo...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter

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Southwark Council

The London Borough of Southwark was created as an amalgamation of the Metropo...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
St Margaret's Church & Borough Compter

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London hop trade war memorial

London hop trade war memorial

Credit to Researching the Past for the splendid research on the names on this...

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St Saviour's war memorial

St Saviour's war memorial

The bronze statue on the plinth is of an infantryman tramping through mud. Th...

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