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St Peter’s Cornhill

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In the south-east corner of Cornhill and Gracechurch Street.  A medieval church on the highest point of the City of London.  The legend about its origin given on the Cornhill Insurance door is from John Stow.  Destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren.

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St Peter’s Cornhill

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St Peter’s Cornhill founded by King Lucius 179 AD to be an Archbishop’s see a...

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Aldersgate Trustees of the Methodist Church

Aldersgate Trustees of the Methodist Church

Also known as "Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes". The purposes of the Trustees are commemoration of the Aldersgate Conversion of John and Charles Wesley in May 1738.

Group, Religion

2 memorials
Order of Cluny

Order of Cluny

A Benedictine order of monks, founded in the Burgundian area of France, by Duke William of Aquitaine. It was unusual in that, unlike other monastic communities it was granted perpetual freedom from...

Group, Religion, France

1 memorial
St Benet Gracechurch

St Benet Gracechurch

Name derives from the nearby hay (or grass) market. Lost in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren, demolished 1876.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
St Mary Colechurch

St Mary Colechurch

First recorded in the late 12th century as an element in the name of the priest, Peter Colechurch, who built the first stone London Bridge. It is not known whether the church took its name from Pet...

Building, Religion

1 memorial
St George's Church, Bloomsbury

St George's Church, Bloomsbury

Architect: Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Place, Religion

1 memorial