'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer. In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and not rebuilt. The site was retained as a churchyard until Cannon Street Railway Station was built in the 1860s.
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St Mary Bothaw
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St Mary Bothaw
Site of St Mary Bothaw, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of ...
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J.J.H. Septimus Pennington, Rector
Rector of St Clement Danes in the Strand. The lady beside the Rector in the picture is his daughter, Louie who had a sad end.
2 memorials
St Margaret, Fish Street Hill
Lost in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. Stood where the Monument now stands.
1 memorial
Rev. Joseph Toulson
From Famous Pulpits of our Churches - Caledonian Road, by by Rev. William Mincher: "In 1868 Joseph Toulson became minister. He was a man of wonderful resource, untiring patience, and consummate tac...
1 memorial
1 memorial
John Rochester
Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.
1 memorial
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