A Benedictine order of monks, founded in the Burgundian area of France, by Duke William of Aquitaine. It was unusual in that, unlike other monastic communities it was granted perpetual freedom from military service and other temporal obligations. The order spread to Britain in the eleventh century, with the first monastery being erected at Lewes.
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Order of Cluny
Bermondsey Abbey, founded as a Priory of the Order of Cluny, stood here, 1082...
Born Kidderminster. Died Monkwell Street. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
Old parish church , built 1400, rebuilt 1741, demolished 1949.
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 to...
Designed by William Wardell, its foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Wiseman in 1851. The need for the church grew from the indigenous Catholic population being boosted by Irish immigration in th...
Inspired by East End schemes such as Toynbee Hall, this Settlement was established by Francis Herbert Stead (1857 – 1928, brother of W. T. Stead). Francis was Congregationalist minister at York St...
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Civilian killed in WW2.
For more information about this hero click on the picture of his plaque.
Charles McCall, DAEdin, ROI, NEAC, 1907-1989, artist, lived and died here.
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