Monks were first brought to Westminster in about 960 AD by St Dunstan, then Bishop of London. The Monastery spread out over the area now occupied by Westminster Abbey and Westminster School The earliest surviving parts of the buildings are from about 1245.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Westminster Monastery
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Tachbrook - Abbots
Abbots House To commemorate the Abbots of the Monastery of Westminster who fo...
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John Apprice
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs. Blind. Shared a stake with Laverock who chatted with him during their ordeal.
1 memorial
Bagley's Foundry / The Foundery
There was a gun-manufacturing foundry at Windmill Hill, now Tabernacle Street EC2, until an explosion on 10 May 1716. Captured French guns were being melted and the liquid metal was poured into mou...
2 memorials
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
1 memorial
Oscar Romero
Roman Catholic archbishop in El Salvador, assassinated.
1 memorial
Rev. Peebles Fleming
Minister of Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church in 1957. Our photo comes from Jersey Heritage where it is captioned: "Photograph of the Reverend W. Peebles Fleming, the new minister of St John...
1 memorial
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2 memorials
1 memorial
King Haakon VII
Born Christian Frederik Carl Georg Valdemar Axel in Charlottenlund Palace, near Copenhagen. Known as Prince Carl of Denmark, he became the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the uni...
2 memorials
Sheen war memorial
TW9, Sheen Lane
This monument appears in a scene shot on location in the 1973 movie 'Vault of Horror' (segment 5 'Drawn and Quartered'). There you see th...
3 subjects commemorated
Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford
Born Jane Parker, a distant relative of Henry VIII, she became a lady-in-waiting to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and to quite a few of those that followed. Married Anne Boleyn’s brother, G...
2 memorials
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