Plaque

Tower Hill Martyrs - list

Inscription

{5 plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, the first being 1381 and the last 1747. See the Subjects commemorated. One other similar plaque reads:}

To commemorate the tragic history and in many cases the martyrdom of those who for the sake of their faith, country or ideals staked their lives and lost. On this site more than 125 were put to death, the names of some of whom are recorded here.

Site: Tower Hill Martyrs (2 memorials)

EC3, Trinity Square

This is an odd square arrangement of plaques surrounded with bedding plants and miniature pylons chained together to form trip hazards. The Kilmarnock & Balmerino plaque is flat on the ground at the centre. Arranged around three edges of the square are 5 slightly raised plaques, in total listing 27 names, each with their year of death, in date sequence. We show here just one of the plaques.

A London Inheritance has a great post which shows this site in 1947.

A permanent scaffold was sited here for public decapitation. Important people, mainly royals, were executed nearby, within the grounds of the Tower

Matt Brown of Londonist points out that "More people were executed in the Tower of London in the 20th century than all preceding centuries put together."  That's because, until the modern era, executions at "the Tower" actually took place on Tower Hill, not in the Tower itself.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Tower Hill Martyrs - list

Subjects commemorated i

125 deaths on Tower Hill

Wikipedia lists only 36 (in 2011).  Most of the victims that we have research...

Read More

Henry Courtenay, Earl of Devon

Grandson of King Edward IV. 1st Marquess of Exeter.  Accused of Catholic loya...

Read More

Thomas Cromwell

Born Putney. Executed on Tower Hill by order of Henry VIII, while Henry marri...

Read More

Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcey of Templehurst

Known as Lord Darcy de Darcy or Darcy of Templehurst or Temple Hirst.  Early ...

Read More

Sir Simon de Burley

Soldier and then tutor to Prince Richard who would become Richard II. Burley ...

Read More

Show all 28

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Tower Hill Martyrs - list

Also at this site i

Tower Hill Martyrs - Kilmarnock & Balmerino

Tower Hill Martyrs - Kilmarnock & Balmerino

Brenda Cook helpfully suggested we refer to the Newgate Calendar’s account of...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Battersea WW2 memorial

Battersea WW2 memorial

SW11, Cabul Road, Christchurch Gardens

The monument, first unveiled in 1952, was next to the ruins of a mid-19th century church which was bombed and destroyed during the war. R...

2 subjects commemorated
Leyton Orient Football Club

Leyton Orient Football Club

E10, Oliver Road

The plaque can be seen in our photo, below the 'Ticket Office' sign.

3 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Gerald Road Police Station

Gerald Road Police Station

SW1, Gerald Road, 60

The lamp here has lost its blueness. Caroline's Miscellany explains that the practice of hanging blue lamps outside police stations start...

2 subjects commemorated
Balham Station bombing - 2

Balham Station bombing - 2

SW12, Balham High Road, Balham Underground Station

Plaque 1 incorrectly states that there were 64 people killed in this incident. The Wandsworth Guardian carries the story of how it was di...

4 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Tachbrook - opening

Tachbrook - opening

SW1, Bessborough Street

Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site.  In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...

1 subject commemorated

Previously viewed

Richard Garbrar

Richard Garbrar

Co-churchwarden of St Peter and St Matthew Friday Street in 1712.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
A. C. Curwood

A. C. Curwood

Coaching Department

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Hugh Myddelton

Sir Hugh Myddelton

Goldsmith and entrepreneur. Born Denbigh, Wales sometime 1555-60, younger brother of Sir Thomas Myddelton (c1550-1631) who became Lord Mayor of London. 1576 came to London to be an apprentice golds...

Person, Engineering, Food & Drink, Wales

7 memorials
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1st Baronet)

MP, brewer, slave abolitionist and social reformer. Born Essex. Entered the Brick Lane brewery Truman, Hanbury & Company in 1808, eventually taking on sole ownership. 1807 married Hannah Gurney...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Race Issues, Social Welfare

3 memorials
H. Abbott

H. Abbott

Name on one of the corner plaques of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial