'Bothaw' derived from 'boathouse', which makes sense when you remember that before the Embankment was built the Thames used be be a lot closer. In existence by 1279, it was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and not rebuilt. The site was retained as a churchyard until Cannon Street Railway Station was built in the 1860s.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
St Mary Bothaw
Commemorated ati
St Mary Bothaw
Site of St Mary Bothaw, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of ...
Other Subjects
Rodney Smith
Evangelist. Born in a gipsy tent in Epping Forest, Wanstead. He began to hawk clothes pegs and tinware made by his father and became known as 'The Singing Gipsy Boy' because of his eagerness to sin...
Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road
The church moved here at the end of the 19th century from a Knightsbridge site, where the French Embassy now is. The British Library have a wonderful zoomable street-scape showing Knightsbridge w...
John Wesley's house
Wesley built the chapel first, 1778, and then two houses, one either side, one for his own use and one for visiting preachers and their hangers-on. Both designed by George Dance the younger who als...
David Hope, Bishop of London
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...
The Reverend Edwin Noyes, M.A.
Vicar of Christ Church on Turnham Green from 1906 until at least 1913. Edwin Noyes was born in 1863 in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire (now West Midlands), the youngest of the seven children of Rober...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them