The Reverend Richard Cranmer was Lord of the Manor of Mitcham Canons. A nearby road and green both bear his surname. He had died before 1831. From Merton: "The Canons House and estate remained in the ownership of the Cranmer family and their descendants the Simpsons until 1939..."
The Cranmers were descendants of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer who lived during the religious upheaval of the 16th century.
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Reverend Richard Cranmer
The inscription is badly deteriorated, so we have copied the inscription from...
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
A nearby information board gives: These ruins are all that remain of the palace of the powerful Bishops of Winchester, one of the largest and most important buildings in medieval London. Founded i...
Destroyed in the Great Fire. The new building by Wren, 1670-1679, was damaged by bombing in 1917 but survives.
Initially called 'sha'arhashamayim', the Gate of Heaven, this was the first professing Jewish community in the British Isles to be established in modern times (following the expulsion) and formed t...
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