One of the 18 Carthusian Martyrs. Prior of The London Charterhouse - a Carthusian monastery. Refused to accept Henry VIII as the head of the church of England. Martyred at Tyburn.
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Saint John Houghton
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Carthusian martyrs
The verse comes from "The Apocrypha: Prayer of Azariah, Chapter 1". We don't...
Charterhouse
The Great Cloister of The London Charterhouse, 1371 - 1538, once occupied thi...
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Newman Hall
Non-conformist minister and hymn writer. Born Maidstone, Kent as Christopher Newman Hall. 1854 became minister of Surrey Chapel. Promoted the abolition of slavery and in 1867 visited North America,...
2 memorials
Reverend Simon Downham
Active in 2002. Associated with St Paul's Church, Queen Caroline Street.
1 memorial
James Hudson Taylor
Born Barnsley, Yorkshire. Died Changsha, Hunan, China (340 miles north of Canton), where he was buried. English missionary to China. Founded the China Inland Mission in 1865 which at his death in...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Winchester Cathedral
The original building was founded to the north of the present one. Work began on a new cathedral in 1079 and was consecrated in 1093. It has the longest nave of any Gothic cathedral in Europe. See ...
1 memorial
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Gloucester Gate Bridge (SE)
NW1, Parkway
This stone records the opening of the bridge to the public. Another similar stone at the north-west corner of the bridge records the gif...
7 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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