The oldest church in the City, founded by the Saxon Abbey of Barking. Built on the site of a Roman building. Expanded and rebuilt several times. A nearby explosion in 1650 demolished the west tower. During the Great Fire of 1666 William Penn's father arranged for the surrounding buildings to be demolished to act as a fire break and so saved the church and Pepys used it as a vantage point from which to view the conflagration. In 1940 the church was badly damaged by bombs with only the tower and walls remaining. The reconstruction work completed in 1957. William Penn was baptised here. John Adams was married here. It is an interesting church to visit. Church's website.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
All Hallows, Barking
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Tower Liberty
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David Livingstone
Explorer, missionary, writer and medic. Born at Blantyre, just south of Glasgow. Qualified as a doctor in order to go as a medical missionary to China. Got the source of the Nile wrong and failed t...
Person, Exploring, Religion, Seriously Famous, Africa, Scotland
2 memorials
A. S. Diamond
President of the West London Synagogue in 1964 and a Master of the Supreme Court.
1 memorial
Rev. Samuel Annesley
Puritan pastor. Birth date approximate. Appointed vicar of St Giles Cripplegate in 1658 but ejected by the 1662 Act of Uniformity, along with about 2,000 other clergymen who refused to adhere to ...
1 memorial
Orange Street Chapel
Also known as the Leicester Fields chapel. Founded by Huguenot refugees who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Occupied: - 1693-1776 by the Huguenots, - 1776-1...
3 memorials
Lambe's Chapel and crypt / St James in the Wall
In 1543, after the dissolution of the monasteries, the hermitage Chapel of St James in the Wall was granted to William Lambe. It was adjacent to his residence, beside London Wall in Monkwell Street...
1 memorial
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Salvation Army Ronalds Road - west
N5, Ronalds Road, 1, Citadel Court
The designer of the building clearly had the 'citadel' concept in mind. Strangely, some of these foundation plaques have had their inscri...
2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
London Bridge - opened
EC3, London Bridge
The plaque is on the east side of the bridge, at about the mid point.
1 subject commemorated,
5 creators
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