Building    To 1841

St Bartholomew by the Exchange

Categories: Religion

Church recorded since the 13th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire 1666, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1841 so that Threadneedle Street could be widened.

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St Bartholomew by the Exchange

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St Bartholomew

Site of St Bartholomew by the Exchange, burnt 1666, rebuilt by Wren, demolish...

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Austin Friars

Austin Friars

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Thomas Reeding

Thomas Reeding

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

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1 memorial
Elizabeth Pepper

Elizabeth Pepper

Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.

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James Stephen

James Stephen

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Dorset.  Trained in law and worked for a time in the Carribean where he saw the cruelty to slaves and became an abolitionist.  The death of his first wife deepened hi...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Caribbean Islands

1 memorial
Bishop Mellitus

Bishop Mellitus

In 604 the Bishop Mellitus arrived from Italy as the first Bishop of London and built and dedicated a cathedral to St Paul on the site where St Paul’s stands today.  Became Archbishop of Canterbury...

Person, Religion, Italy

1 memorial