Venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr. Traditionally believed to have been beheaded in Verulamium (modern St Albans) sometime during the 3rd or 4th century.
His attributes are: Soldier with a very large cross and a sword; decapitated, with his head in a holly bush and the eyes of his executioner dropping out. Nice.
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Saint Alban
To the glory of God and in memory of St Alban, the first martyr of Britain, t...
Now known as the World Jewish Fund. Â Established in 1933 as the Central British Fund, the charity rescued over 100,000 Jewish people from Germany before WWII and was also largely responsible for or...
Designed by Charles Robert Cockerell. Stood at the top of Regent Street.
Represented the Sunday School of the Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church in 1957.
Nonconformist minister.  Born Whitechapel.  Minister at Kingston, Bermondsey and then the Orange Street Chapel.  1807 co-founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Old Kent Road, which he part...
Vicar of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. As rector in Whitechapel he built the St Mary's Clergy House (still there, immediately south of this Whitechapel drinking fountain) in 1894–5, also with Herbert ...
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