A Cistercian monastery. Also called St Mary's or West Ham Abbey, one of the largest Cistercian abbeys in England, it existed until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Although the ruins were pillaged for building materials, the great gate survived until 1825. The picture is an engraving of the gatehouse in 1784.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Stratford Langthorne Abbey
The plaque doesn't let on exactly what was erected in 1882. The stone is on a...
Born Reading. 1628 became Bishop of London. 1633 became Archbishop of Canterbury. Supported Charles I, opposed many of the church practices that had come in during Queen Elizabeth's reign and perse...
Incorporated June 1896. We can't find any information about this organisation but think the NBWTA possibly mutated into the BWTA.
Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Franciscan killed by the Nazis in 1941.
