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 ...
This Memorial Garden, re-dedicated in 2009, commemorates the residents of Wes...
We could find nothing on the history of this Great Synagogue but its closure in 1272 was due to the difficulties suffered by the Jews in England leading up to their expulsion in 1290. Medieval Lond...
Theologian. Born Liverpool. Bishop of Durham. Never married. Died Bournmouth.
Protestant martyr. He was believed to have been a Baptist, which was rather dangerous in the reign of Mary I. Whilst returning from a visit to Maidstone, he was stopped by Edmund Tyrell, a justice ...
Bishop of London 1956 - 61. His Wikipedia page has many examples of his sharp wit. Died Westminster Hospital.
Anglican vicar. Born Sussex, his father being a cousin of Lord Jellicoe. Worked in the slums of Somers Town, north London in the 1920s. He set up the St Pancras House Improvement Society and persu...
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