Site of St Mary Cole Church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Old Jewry, 36/37
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'.
St. Thomas Becket was born in a house close to this church.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the prie...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Greater London Council Francis Turner Palgrave, 1824 - 1897, compiler of the "Golden Treasury", lived here, 1862 - 1875.
Robert Browning lived in this house 1887 - 1889, from here his body was taken for interment in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey.
There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.
The blue Parson plaque is on the north facade. The 1885 extension plaque is on West Ham Lane, the east side of the building (not in our p...
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