The church gets its name from the pattens (clog-like shoes) made and sold in the lane beside the church. An early building was pulled down and reconstructed in 1538. After the Great Fire it was again rebuilt, by Wren 1686 - 1688. Damaged during WW2 it was restored in 1955-56.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St Margaret Pattens
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St Gabriel Fen churchyard
The modern information board above adds nothing of historical interest.
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Old Meeting Congregational Church - Uxbridge
The Old Meeting Congregational Church was founded in the 1660s, but meetings were held in the homes of members until 1716 when their first meeting house was erected. Thomas Ebenezer Beasley was the...
1 memorial
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
Scheut Fathers
Roman Catholic missionaries, correctly named the Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae (the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary). Founded by the Belgian priest Theophiel Verbist, in Scheut,...
1 memorial
United Free Methodist church, Hanbury Street
Owned the building from 1858 until 1887. During this time works were carried out under the architect C. McJ (or McI) North.
2 memorials
Arthur G. B. West
We were delighted to find this Jack Boothe drawing of West in The Vancouver Province (British Columbia, Canada), 21 September 1935. The article, 'Big man with big hands comes out to start fifty boy...
1 memorial
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