In the south-east corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street. A medieval church on the highest point of the City of London. The legend about its origin given on the Cornhill Insurance door is from John Stow. Destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren.
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St Peter’s Cornhill
Commemorated ati
CI - 1 - Christianity
St Peter’s Cornhill founded by King Lucius 179 AD to be an Archbishop’s see a...
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St Dunstans, Stepney
Records of this church go back to AD 952. Until the 14th century it was the only church in east London. The existing 15th century building is the third on the site, though it was reclad in 1880s. T...
Rev John Gordon
Rector of St. Antholins including the old parish of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook. Gordon had been vicar in Edwinston, Nottinghamshire. In 1827 he became rector at St. Antholins and that same...
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
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John Campbell, VC
SW1, Victoria Embankment, Victoria Embankment Gardens
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
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Hugh Jenkins
SW15, Lower Richmond Road, Kenilworth Court
Lord Hugh Jenkins, 1908 - 2004, Putney MP, 1964- 1979, Minister for the Arts, lived at Kenilworth Court. The Putney Society
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