Near this spot lie the mortal remains of Christopher Marlowe, who met his untimely death in Deptford on May 30th 1593.
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, Doctor Faustus.
SE8, Deptford Green, St Nicholas' Churchyard
The actual location of his grave is unknown.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Bap...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Christopher Marlowe
Playwright and poet, for definite. Spy? Atheist? Homosexual? Shakespeare? Bap...
Sir William Reid Dick, 1878 - 1961, sculptor, worked here in Studio 3, 1910 - 1914. English Heritage
Site of the Bull and Mouth Inn, demolished 1888. The Corporation of the City of London
Johnson was a good friend of the Thrales who owned the Anchor Brewery which once occupied this site. We've read that this image was the ...
Sir Arthur Eddington O.M., 1882 - 1944, mathematician and astrophysicist, lived here. Greater London Council
Anna Freud, 1895 - 1982, pioneer of child psychoanalysis, lived here 1938 - 1982.
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