Church House
Built 1938, destroyed in war 9th February 1945, rebuilt 1955 - 56.
Deo Gloria
WC1, Wakefield Street, United Reformed Church Trust
The blue plaque is on the site of number 13, now the United Reformed Church Trust’s UK headquarters. The other two plaques are inside, in the reception area on the ground floor.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Church House WC1 - building
Forgive us for the length of this entry. The history of the various buildings...
The V1 and V2 rockets were developed as a reaction to the heavy allied bombin...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do vis...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Church House WC1 - building
Our colleague Andrew Behan has done some detailed research on these names and...
The wooden cross atop the building supports a neon cross, wired to an electrical box so rusty that we doubt it still lights the way for N...
W. P. Frith, 1819 - 1909, painter, lived and died here. Greater London Council
Sir Peter Medawar, 1915 - 1987, pioneer of transplantation immunology, lived here. English Heritage
Plaques are designed to be laid into brickwork, as this was on its first building. A rather complicated frame arrangement has been necess...
James Parkinson, 1755 - 1824, physician and geologist, lived here.
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