'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
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St Mary Bothaw
Site of St Mary Bothaw, destroyed in the Great Fire 1666. The Corporation of ...
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Kingston Inter Faith Forum
From their 2019 page at Kingston Citizens Advice: "We serve as a channel of communication and understanding between the various faith groups, providing an opportunity for discussion of issues of mu...
Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram
Bishop of London (1901-39), Chairman of the Trustees of Whiteley Village. Born and died in Worcestershire.
Saint Vincent Pallotti
Priest.  Born Rome. Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers. Canonized in 1963.  He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we ar...
Laurence Pountney Church & Corpus Christi College
Sir John Poultney or de Pulteney was in the Drapers' Company, Lord Mayor 3 times in the period 1330-6, and had his house on the west of what is now Laurence Pountney Hill.  He founded Corpus Christ...
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