First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the priest, Peter Colechurch, who built the first stone London Bridge. It is not known whether the church took its name from Peter, or vice versa.
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St Mary Colechurch
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St Mary Colechurch
Site of St Mary Cole Church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporati...
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Thomas Becket
Chancellor, Archbishop and Martyr. Born Cheapside of French parents. son of Gilbert Becket, mercer. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1162 to his death. Assassinated after his erstwhile friend, Henry II, d...
2 memorials
St George's Tufnell Park
We are as certain as can be, that this church in Tufnell Park Road is the St George's whose Band of Mercy was the donor of the drinking fountain at Limehouse Station. Designed by George Truefitt f...
1 memorial
Frederick Denison Maurice
John Frederick Denison Maurice was born 29 August 1805 in Normanston near Lowestoft. He was the founder of the Working Men's College and an organizer of the Christian Socialist movement. He died,...
1 memorial
Robert Burt
Vicar of Twickenham. Officiated at the secret wedding of George, Prince of Wales to Mrs Fitzherbert. Buried at St Mary the Virgin, Twickenham. From Barryslemming: "The Old Rectory at St Mary Ho...
1 memorial
Father Basil Jellicoe
Anglican vicar. Born Sussex, his father being a cousin of Lord Jellicoe. Worked in the slums of Somers Town, north London in the 1920s. He set up the St Pancras House Improvement Society and persu...
3 memorials
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