The original Austin Friars monastery dates from about 1250. In 1550 Edward VI granted Protestant refugees from the Netherlands permission to establish a church here, the first Dutch Protestant church in the world. Destroyed in WW2.
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First Dutch church, Austin Friars
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Austin Friars & the Queens
To commemorate the visit by Their Majesties Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Beat...
Dutch Church
HKH Irene Prinses der Nederlanden, legde de eerste steen van dit Kerkgebouw d...
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Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England. In the latter role he was associated with the taxes against which the Peasants Revolted and so, along with Robert Hales, he was dragged fro...
1 memorial
Thomas Rosewell
Non-conformist minister. Born Somerset. Died Bermondsey. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
1 memorial
St John the Evangelist church, Wilton Road
The picture source provides the following information: Built in 1874 as a chapel of ease to St Peter, Eaton Square. The church was destroyed in WW2 and the remains pulled down a few years later. Th...
1 memorial
Rev. Evelyn Howard Morton
Rector of St Nicholas Tooting Graveney from 1893 until at least 1897, he was the eldest son of his predecessor in this role, Edward Howard Morton, rector 1880-1893. By 1897 Edward was retired in Bo...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Worshipful Company of Founders
Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate. They made small objects such as candlesticks and weights and measures. From their website (link now dead): "Today ... the Founders' Com...
3 memorials
Roman Camp
N7, Hungerford Road, 141
Difficult to find even if you know it's there - took us three visits. This plaque does not face the road, but west, and hides behind a br...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
William Jessop
Civil engineer. Born Devon. Worked for Smeaton, first as an apprentice and then as assistant until 1772. Promoted cast iron as a constructional material. Built the Grand Canal in Ireland. Buil...
1 memorial
Josiah Wedgwood
Master potter. Born in Burslem, Stoke, Staffordshire, into a potters family. Married his cousin, Sally. Childhood smallpox left him with a limp. His inability to operate the potters wheel meant he ...
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4 memorials
Lady Diana Beauclerk
Lady Diana Spencer was born in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough. She was expected to follow a traditional path through life: educated in the fashion considered suitable for a...
2 memorials
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