Site of St Mary Cole Church, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC2, Old Jewry, 36/37
We don't understand why the plaque presents the name as 'Cole Church' since everywhere else it's given as 'Colechurch'.
St. Thomas Becket was born in a house close to this church.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the prie...
Started on a Sunday morning. After 4 days the destruction included: - an area...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
St Mary Colechurch
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Greater London Council Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953, poet, lived here.
That last phrase "Pray for his soul..." is surely a quotation but we can't source it.
An information board, just to the right of our photo, says: "Royal Northern Gardens occupies part of the old Royal Northern Hospital sit...
A pair of these markers is attached to each side of the bridge, with CP always to the north and BP to the south. Chelsea Parish and Bat...
Yeo-Thomas lived here with his common-law wife, Barbara, from 1941 until about 1945, after which he lived in France.
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