Building    From 1820  To 1899

St Mary Moorfields

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Catholic church built by architect John Newman in 1820. Replaced in 1902 by the church of the same name in nearby Eldon Street.

From the church's website: "As the permanent seat of the Vicar Apostolic, it served as Cardinal Wiseman's pro-cathedral 1852 - 1870."

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St Mary Moorfields

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St Mary Moorfields

Site of St Mary Moorfields, Pro Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church 1852 -...

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Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer

Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer

Born Birkenhead. Vicar of St Philips Lambeth 1898 - 1910. Biblical Studies: The Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer, MA, St John's College, Cambridge, Senior Curate of St Jude's Church, South Kensington, has ...

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1 memorial
Susanna Annesley Wesley

Susanna Annesley Wesley

Born 7, Spital Yard, the 25th, and last (phew) child.  Her father, Dr. Samuel Annesley, was a minister, but a dissenter of the established church of England.   On becoming a teenager Susanna, centu...

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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand

The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland

Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland

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...

Person, Religion

1 memorial