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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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Edward Henry Mosse

Edward Henry Mosse

Priest. Born in Heage, Derbyshire. Vicar of St.Michael's, Aspley Heath in Woburn Sands 1884-99, and Rector of St Paul's Covent Garden from 1899 until his death in a WW1 air raid. He was killed stan...

Person, Religion, Tragedy

War dead non-military, WW1
1 memorial
Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action

Bedford Institute / Quaker Social Action

Established in the East End as the Bedford Institute Association to act on Education, Religious Effort, Moral Training, and Relief of the sick and destitute. Named for the Quaker silk merchant and ...

Group, Education, Religion, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Bermondsey Abbey

Bermondsey Abbey

Benedictine Priory of St Saviour at Bermondsey occupied ground between present day Bermondsey Street, Abbey Street and Grange Walk.  Built on the site of a previous monastery from before 715, it wa...

Place, Religion

2 memorials
James Hutton

James Hutton

A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Stamford Street Unitarian Chapel

Stamford Street Unitarian Chapel

Built to house two congregations which had united following the loss of their chapels: Princes Street, Westminster and St. Thomas's Street, Southwark. In 1897 the congregation of the Blackfriars Mi...

Building, Property, Religion

1 memorial

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F. Piper

F. Piper

Coaching Department

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Ann E. L. Crofton

Ann E. L. Crofton

Died before January 1904. Remembered by her niece with a cattle trough in Woolwich.

Person, Friend / family

1 memorial
R. Kelly

R. Kelly

Engineers Department

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Alfred Dennis

Alfred Dennis

Victim of the Druid Street arch bomb, aged 52.

Person

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
S. G. T. Vickery

S. G. T. Vickery

J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. staff member who died in WW2.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW2
1 memorial