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Westminster Monastery

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Westminster Monastery

Monks were first brought to Westminster in about 960 AD by St Dunstan, then Bishop of London. The Monastery spread out over the area now occupied by Westminster Abbey and Westminster School The earliest surviving parts of the buildings are from about 1245.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Westminster Monastery

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Tachbrook - Abbots

Abbots House To commemorate the Abbots of the Monastery of Westminster who fo...

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dissolution of the monasteries

dissolution of the monasteries

In 1534, for reasons not only to do with his marital situation, Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Pope and the Catholic Church. At the time the Catholic monasteries (and abbeys, priories, convents an...

Event, Politics & Administration, Property, Religion, Royalty

4 memorials
Nathaniel Mather

Nathaniel Mather

Non-conformist minister.  Born Lancashire.  Buried in Bunhill burial ground.  

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Mrs Onslow

Mrs Onslow

Connected to the Salvation Army Citadel, Ronalds Road in 1890.

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Mother Kate

Mother Kate

Mother Superior of St Saviours Priory at the time that the community moved from East Grinstead onto the Dunloe Street site, in 1866. When she died in 1923 a memorial fund was created to help comple...

Person, Religion, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Henry J. McCulloch

Henry J. McCulloch

My Primitive Methodists has found mentions of this man at: Foundation-stone laying, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Cambridge St Peters Street Primitive Methodist chapel : "H. J. McCulloch, Esq.,...

Person, Philanthropy, Religion

1 memorial