First recorded in the 12th century. Destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt. This 1799 map shows the whole site marked as "churchyard". The congregation merged with St Antholin Budge Row. The text on the memorial suggests that the churchyard survived until 1884.
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St John the Baptist upon Walbrook
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St John the Baptist upon Walbrook - monument
An unusual and unsuccessful siting of a three-dimensional monument. One face ...
St John the Baptist Upon Walbrook - plaque
The inscription on the upper plaque requires careful examination to read but ...
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Lord Teignmouth, John Shore
Anti-slavery campaigner. Born St James Street, Piccadilly but brought up in Romford. 1769 went to work in Bengal where he was one of the first to learn a number of the local languages. Like many...
Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Religion, Indian Sub-continent
1 memorial
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
1 memorial
Pete Broadbent
Bishop of Willesden from 2001. He caused controversy when Prince William and Catherine Middleton became engaged. He announced he was a republican, calling the couple 'shallow celebrities' and sayin...
1 memorial
Josemaria Escriva
Born Spain. He became a Roman Catholic priest. He founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the teaching that everyone is called to holiness by God and that ordinary l...
1 memorial
1 memorial
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Westminster Union Workhouse
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We think Whittingham's first name might be given as Rob. or ?ch. but it's lost in shadow. And there might be a fourth Overseer, or not. W...
7 subjects commemorated
Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Started by Samuel Gurney MP and the barrister, Edward Thomas Wakefield. Founded as the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association it changed its name to include cattle troughs in 1867. London...
38 memorials
1 memorial
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