The church seems to have occupied a site between St Martin's-le-Grand and Foster Lane. Destroyed in the Great Fire its ruins were, amazingly, not removed until the early 1800s.
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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
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St Leonards, St Martin's-le-Grand
Site of St Leonard’s Church, destroyed in the Great Fire, 1666. The Corporati...
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Robert Salte
Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.
1 memorial
William Godfrey, Archbishop of Westminster
Born Liverpool. Died Westminster Hospital.
1 memorial
Thomas Doolittle, MA
Born Kidderminster. Died Monkwell Street. Buried in Bunhill burial ground.
1 memorial
George Searles
Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.
1 memorial
Benjamin Waugh
Social reformer and minister. Born in Settle, Yorkshire. Whilst working in the slums of Greenwich, he became appalled at the deprivations and cruelties suffered by children. He wrote 'The Gaol Crad...
4 memorials
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Corporation of the City of London
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London'. In 2006 the name was changed from just 'Corporation of London' to disti...
181 memorials
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.
Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer. Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...
War dead, WW1
3 memorials
Ladbroke Grove rail disaster / Paddington rail crash
Also referred to as the Paddington rail crash. At 8.06am, a Thames train bound for Bedwyn in Wiltshire left Paddington station. Two minutes later, as it sped along at 41mph, it went through a signa...
2 memorials
Special Operations Executive (SOE)
Spies, basically (but see below), working for the UK in WW2. Formed by Churchill and variously known as "Churchill's Secret Army", "The Baker Street Irregulars", the Pythonesque "Ministry of Ungent...
10 memorials
British armed forces in Korean War
81,084 British servicemen served in the theatre of operations. 1,106 were killed in action. Thousands were wounded and 1,060 suffered as prisoners of war. At its source, the National Army Museum, ...
1 memorial
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