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St Peter’s Cornhill

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St Peter’s Cornhill

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 .  Destroyed in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren.

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St Peter’s Cornhill

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CI - 1 - Christianity

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

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Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland

Fr. Frank Oakley Rowland

Fr. Rowland opened a  a mission church in 1881 in a small field near a pond just off the Brecknock Road.  This later became the church hall - still in use in 2013 (probably the building immediately...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Convent of the Holy Child Jesus

Convent of the Holy Child Jesus

The Roman Catholic Society of the Holy Child Jesus was founded in a Convent in Derby on 13 October 1846 by US-born Cornelia Connelly (1809 - 1879) and three colleagues. The Convent of the Holy Chil...

Group, Religion

1 memorial
J. C. Taylor

J. C. Taylor

Vicar of St Mary's Harmondsworth in 1885.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
St Michaels Bassishaw

St Michaels Bassishaw

Church first recorded in a document of 1196. Destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt by Wren (or his colleagues, at least) and, found to be unsafe, demolished in 1900.

Building, Religion

1 memorial
Southwark Cathedral

Southwark Cathedral

Its full name is the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie. Any claim that there was a convent here before 1106 are apparently unproven. 1106 - 1538 it was the church of...

Building, Religion

1 memorial