The original building was founded to the north of the present one. Work began on a new cathedral in 1079 and was consecrated in 1093. It has the longest nave of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. See William Walker for the story of how the Cathedral almost sank.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Winchester Cathedral
Erected in the centenary year of his death. Such a fittingly designed plaque....
Persecuted in France, about 50,000 Huguenots fled to Britain where Edward VI granted them asylum. The French Protestant Church of London was established by Royal Charter in 1550. It took over the T...
Biblical scholar and headmaster. Born Staffordshire, his father a Wesleyan minister. Became a Wesleyan minister and then the first headmaster of the Leys School, Cambridge in 1875 and remained ther...
Catholic priest. Born Roussel Davids Byles in Leeds. He was ordained in 1902, (which is when he took the name of Thomas), and in 1905 was assigned to St Helen's Parish in Chipping Ongar, Essex. He ...
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
Administrator of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Listed as "The Hon. and Revd. R. Henley - Incumbent" on the Pest House plaque. Vicar of St Mary's Putney in 1886.
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