Named in memory of the Countess Helen Tasker (1823–88) of Middleton Hall, Brentwood, one of the main benefactors. The church was consecrated by Archbishop Manning in 1869 and became part of the Archdiocese of Westminster.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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St Helen's Catholic Church Chipping Ongar
The church that erected the plaque is immediately behind this house, which is...
Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 to 1890. Died Dover. 2019: We were contacted by Ann Hentschel who told us that church was born Lisbon, Portugal, not Newport, Wales, as we had read elsewhere. Ann has p...
Member of Kingston Spiritualist Church in 1927.
Fr. Rowland opened a a mission church in 1881 in a small field near a pond just off the Brecknock Road. This later became the church hall - still in use in 2013 (probably the building immediately...
The only Lady Morgan we can find is the Irish novelist Sydney, Lady Morgan (1781? - 1859). In 1833 she spent time in Belgium and then wrote the novel ‘The Princess’ set there, so, it might be her. ...
Escaped the Great Fire. Demolished and rebuilt in 1774-7. Unused it was demolished in 1923 leaving part of the tower and the porch but then that was badly burnt in WW2. There is a related ruin jus...
The Duke of Sussex had died just 3 years before this plaque was erected. We have competing information about the architect of this wing....
Christ Church itself was built in 1839 and quickly established its Sunday School, initially only for boys and in rented premises in Flood Street. Then Lord Cadogan donated the land directly opposit...
This charity was founded at the start of WW1 by Arthur Pearson, the newspaper magnate who became blind in later life, as The Blinded Soldiers' and Sailors' Care Committee. February 1915 it opened t...
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