From University of Manchester we learn that Bray was "a poor uneducated layman, possessed of a deep religious faith. A brazier by trade, his house in the district of the city known as Little Britain was the centre for early Methodist/Moravian activities until it was superseded by the Fetter Lane meeting room."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Bray
Commemorated ati
Bray's house
Adjoining this site stood the house of John Bray, scene of Charles Wesley's e...
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Wang Zhiming
Pastor and evangelist killed during the Chinese cultural revolution.
1 memorial
St Mary Matfelon Whitechapel
1250-1286: The first church was built on this site as a chapel of ease (meaning not the main parish church) in the parish of Stepney. The ‘White Chapel’ was constructed from Kentish chalk rubble a...
3 memorials
Lydia Rogers
Supposed witch. The wife of carpenter John Rogers, she belonged to a radical religious sect called the Anabaptists. She was accused of making a blood pact with the devil, who was said to have cut a...
1 memorial
Thomas Goodwin, DD
Non-conformist minister. Born Norfolk. Chaplain to Oliver Cromwell. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
1 memorial
John Whitgift
Elizabeth I's last Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace used as a summer retreat by the Archbishops of Canterbury was in Croydon and here in 1596 Whitgift founded an eponymous school. Memorable dat...
2 memorials