Person    | Male  Born /7/1624  Died 13/1/1691

George Fox

Categories: Religion

Founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers).
Born Leicestershire. Died in a house near the Gracechurch Street meeting house. The exact location of his grave in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground is unknown.

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George Fox

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Quakers - garden

This unusual memorial is made out of slates and shaped to resemble a burial m...

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Quakers - Memorial Buildings

To the left of this huge plaque there is a small, simple and extremely well-m...

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St Olave Hart Street - church

St Olave Hart Street - church

Survived the Great Fire but was so badly damaged in WW2 that for the period 1948 - 54 the congregation used a temporary church in Mark Street. Samuel Pepys and his wife Elizabeth are buried here a...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
St Benet Fink

St Benet Fink

Church destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, rebuilt by Wren and demolished 1844.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
St Olave Church, Silver Street

St Olave Church, Silver Street

The first reference to a church on this site is to 'St Olave de Mukewellestrate' in the twelfth century,named for King Olave. Destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Instead the parish...

Building, Religion

2 memorials
Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey

Officially, The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster. According to tradition, there has been a religious establishment on the site since the seventh century. Construction of the present bui...

Building, Architecture, Religion

3 memorials