Designed by Francis Octavius Bedford. Unusually it is orientated north-south instead of east-west. This is because of a stipulation at the time that no building in Lower Norwood should be built within 100 feet of an existing building without the permission of the owner of the other building.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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St Luke's Church West Norwood
These railings were completed in 2009 to replace the original railings which ...
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Saint. Also known as Ercenwald, Earconwald, Eorcenwald and Erconwald. Born at Lindsey, Lincolnshire. He helped establish two Benedictine abbeys; Chertsey Abbey for men and Barking Abbey for women. ...
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Became Rector of All Saints Poplar in 1803 and remained there until his death. Probably born in London, his father being employed as auditor for the East India Company and the family living in Wan...
1992 Bishop of London 1991-5. 2005 created a life peer, Baron Hope of Thornes. 2013 caught up in a scandal concerning the 2003 child abuser, Dean of Manchester, Robert Waddington, whom Hope had no...
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