Originally founded as a mission in 1842, it was built to serve the local Catholic community, many of whom had come from Ireland to work on the railways and in the shipyards.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Originally founded as a mission in 1842, it was built to serve the local Catholic community, many of whom had come from Ireland to work on the railways and in the shipyards.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Our Lady of the Assumption Deptford
The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed. The picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.
The church, dating back to the 9th century, was destroyed in the Great Fire and not rebuilt. The parsonage survived until at least 1762.
From the building society that funded the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple. Advertised in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 1920s and 30s.
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for her Protestant beliefs.
Baptist minister. Born Hand Court, Holborn. Closely associated with Samuel Stennett's Little Wild Street chapel. With their help he established a chapel in Battersea in June 1797 where he was pasto...
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