Born in this parish he was awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery in 1916 whilst Chaplain to the 6th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in Mesopotamia. — — Map (db m232370) HM WM
In 1484, this site was given to Bishop Waynflete of Winchester and formed part of his endowment to Magdalen College, Oxford. This 17th century building was occupied by the furnishers Rowland, Son & Vincent for over 100 years. — — Map (db m244413) HM
Drove the Danish invaders from Wessex. He created fortified centres, of which Winchester, the largest, was his capital. During his reign, the streets in use today were first established. Alfred was the most esteemed of English kings. He . . . — — Map (db m230054) HM
The Chesil Rectory is Winchester's oldest commercial property & one of the city's best preserved Medieval buildings.
Built by a wealthy merchant between 1425-1450, the building has been an antique shop, a tannery, a private dwelling, general . . . — — Map (db m229955) HM
This building stands in an area known since the 11th century as Godbegeaton or 'good bargain'.
In the middle of the 15th century the present building, which forms part of a group of linked dwellings, was erected on this site. It was owned by . . . — — Map (db m230010) HM
The William Walker sits under the shadow of the 11th Century cathedral in the centre of Winchester. William Walker, himself a deep sea diver, was called in during the early 1900's as huge cracks started to appear in the cathedral walls.
Walker . . . — — Map (db m240340) HM
St. Mary’s Church and Cannon Street
Historic Dover
The Church of St. Mary the Virgin has been one of Dover's main parish churches for over 400 years. The building is of early Norman origin, and Norman architecture can still be seen in the lower . . . — — Map (db m128567) HM
Ranter’s Oak
This piece of oak is part of the Ranter’s Oak
from Rolvenden.
The reason it is so called is because John Wesley,
founder of the Methodist movement, preached
and “ranted” from its branches.
Queen Elizabeth . . . — — Map (db m128472) HM
Richard III’s Medieval Leicester
Church of the Annunciation
The Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University was built on the site of the former Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The church and the Richard III Story . . . — — Map (db m125067) HM
Richard III’s Medieval Leicester
Newarke Gateway
The Newarke Gateway and the Richard III Story
After his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth, King Richard III’s corpse was brought back to Leicester and put on public display in the Newarke . . . — — Map (db m125065) HM
The Collegiate Church
Upon this site stood the important and beautiful Collegiate Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady, which was founded in 1355-6 by Henry, First Duke of Lancaster and Fourth Lancastrian Earl of Leicester. When he enlarged his . . . — — Map (db m125046) HM
19th century congregational chapel was converted during the 1980’s to a centre for devotees of Jainism, an ancient religion that teaches love to all living creatures. The building contains important examples of traditional Indian architecture . . . — — Map (db m125073) HM
Changing Pasts
Jain Centre
Chapel to Temple
What we know today Samuel Leicester’s Jain Centre started life in 1863 as a Congregational Chapel (an Independent church). This area around Oxford Street was developed from the mid-19th Century and, . . . — — Map (db m125074) HM
Church of St. John the Baptist
An early example of Georgian Gothic, the present building, completed in 1776, replaced an earlier parish church. Originally built with a broach spire 156 ft. high, this was destroyed in 1850 by lightning ot long after . . . — — Map (db m125145) HM
The imposing red brick Elizabethan mansion behind you is Restoration House; it is a unique city mansion house, an amalgamation of two medieval buildings.
A recently discovered document shows that in the 1580s the owner of Restoration House . . . — — Map (db m240347) HM
This stone commemorates the 300th anniversary of the founding of The French Hospital at La Providence for the relief of poor French Protestant refugees. On this site since 1959, the charity's almshouses continue to serve Huguenots and others — — Map (db m240346) HM
These gardens are called The Vines because in the medieval period, the area was cultivated by monks as a vineyard.
In 1077, Gundulf was ordained Bishop of Rochester. He founded the Benedictine Priory of St Andrew the apostle, at Rochester . . . — — Map (db m240345) HM
Here lived for thirty one years John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Cardinal who laid down his life for his faith on Tower Hill June 22nd 1535 — — Map (db m239314) HM
Though now surrounded by a tower block, a large office complex and a department store, the church remains the focal point of Westlegate and All Saints Green.
What
The Church as it now appears it mainly 14th and 15th century. The tower is . . . — — Map (db m245438) HM
Vicar’s Pele
This tower, the finest of its kind, was built about AD 1300 for a Vicar of Corbridge and was lived in as a fortified vicarage until the early seventeenth century. — — Map (db m125637) HM
This monument was erected in the year 1902, on the site of the ancient market cross by the inhabitants of Rothbury and other friends in admiration and grateful remembrance of the long and useful lives of William George Baron Armstrong of Cragside . . . — — Map (db m126651) HM
Near this place the Baptists of Oxford worshipped from 1661 to 1715 in the house of Richard Tidmarsh (minister 1661 – 1691). Baptisms took place in the stream below. The meeting-house was destroyed by rioters in 1715.
Erected by members . . . — — Map (db m124319) HM
Christ Church
Oxford’s Unique Foundation of College and Cathedral
The collegiate University of Oxford contains within it almost 40 independent educational institutions, or colleges. Christ Church is the largest. It is also, uniquely, the . . . — — Map (db m124409) HM
Christ Church & Its Meadow
Christ Church, on your right, was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey and is one of the University's best known colleges. Its chapel is the city's cathedral and contains the shrine of Oxford's patron saint, St Frideswide. . . . — — Map (db m130820) HM
This Street
Known Till 1300 As
Great Jewry Contained
Many Houses of the Jews
Including the Synagogue
Which Lay to the North
Of Tom Tower
1931 — — Map (db m124415) HM
To the Glory of God
And in Grateful Commemoration
of His Servants
Thomas Cranmer
Nicholas Ridley
Hugh Latimer
Prelates of the Church
of England
Who Near This Spot
Yielded Their Bodies
To Be Burned
Bearing Witness to the . . . — — Map (db m124255) HM
The tree-lined avenue of St Giles' is named after the Norman St Giles’ Church in front of you. The area lies outside the original city wall and development began in the 12th century as Oxford's population grew. Some early properties were farms but . . . — — Map (db m124254) HM
All Hallows Church
This yard is all that is left of All Hallows Church. It stood close to the castle walls and the priests were provided by the College of Saint Nicholas, which was sited nearby. The college was closed at the end of Henry . . . — — Map (db m231216) HM
A story of survival
A church has stood on this site, at the centre of Wallingford, since Norman times.
It was the only church to escape serious damage in the Civil War but it didn't remain unscathed for long. In 1653, during a turbulent . . . — — Map (db m231158) HM
Way of St James
Saint James, one of the Apostles, was martyred in AD44. Legend has it that he spent a number of years preaching in Spain and was subsequently buried there. His supposed burial site was discovered in the early 9th century and became . . . — — Map (db m123837) HM
English Heritage Royal Garrison Church
History through unique stained glass windows
Royal Garrison Church was originally part of a hospital founded in 1212 by the bishop of Winchester. The nave housed the sick while the chancel served . . . — — Map (db m123545) HM
St. John the Evangelist
John was a fisherman and one of the twelve apostles.
He witnessed Jesus’ ministry and was inspired
to write the fourth gospel so that
You may believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God
and believing this you . . . — — Map (db m123274) HM
The Church and the surrounding square owe much of their appearance to the religious Palmers Guild of Ludlow C.1284-1551.
College Street takes its name from the College of Cannons or Priests of the Palmers Guild founded well before the . . . — — Map (db m233565) HM
(The main marker is in Latin, the smaller marker has the English translation)
Domum hanc Eleemosynariam Munificentiâ Iohannis Hosyer Mercatoris
Anno Salutis MCCCCLXXXVI primitus extructam,
Temporis injuriâ labefactam dem et . . . — — Map (db m233390) HM
Edward Wightman
of Burton-on-Trent
was burnt at the stake
in this Market Place
for heresy
11th April 1612
being the last person
in England so to die. — — Map (db m22661) HM
In 1995 archaeologists from Guildford Museum discovered an unusual stone chamber beneath this High Street shop. It was suggested that it might have been a medieval synagogue dating back to the 12th century. — — Map (db m234730) HM
Preached his last sermon from Isaiah LV 6 on 23rd February 1791 in Kingston House which stood upon this site
He died 2nd March 1791
This tablet (erected by permission of Leatherhead Urban District Council) was unveiled 24th May 1935 by the . . . — — Map (db m232525) HM
This building takes its name from the great Methodist preacher John Wesley who visited a family in Kingston House on this site on 23 February 1791, a week before his death. The present building opened as the Council Offices in 1935 and remained . . . — — Map (db m232524) HM
Anglo-Saxon Church
The remains below are believed to be the tower of a late Anglo-Saxon church. Archaeological excavations between 1977 and 1992 revealed over 600 burials related to the cemetery of this church. It is possible that when the . . . — — Map (db m126787) HM
The Basil Hume Memorial Garden
This Statue and Memorial Garden were Unveiled on 17 May 2002 by
Her Majesty The Queen
In the year of Her Majesty’s Golden Jubilee
Cardinal Basil Hume OSB, 1923—1999, Benedictine monk and Abbot of . . . — — Map (db m126554) HM
Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas
The Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas is a Grade I Listed Building and one of the most beautiful and historic buildings in Newcastle. The spire has dominated Newcastle's skyline and served as a prominent . . . — — Map (db m126696) HM
This column was erected in 1838
to commemorate
the services rendered to his country by
Charles, Earl Grey, K.G.
who during an active political career of
nearly half a century
was the constant advocate of peace
and the fearless and . . . — — Map (db m126655) HM
St. Nicholas Cathedral
You are now standing in the heart of Old Newcastle. Beyond the Black Gate you can see the Lantern Tower of the Cathedral Church of St Nicholas.
The Lantern Tower was built in 1448 and is named for the light that . . . — — Map (db m126789) HM
Lost Buildings
From the late 18th century the large empty area in front of you was the hub of a busy military fort.
A large barrack block stood just ahead of you. To its right was the Governor's House, and further to the right was a tall . . . — — Map (db m126167) HM
Stone Detectives
The pieces of carved stone in this room came from different buildings around the site. The surviving ruins of Tynemouth Priory are only a small part of the buildings that were once large and elaborate. But these small pieces . . . — — Map (db m126124) HM
The Cloister
The large grass square in front of you was the monastery's cloister. It was surrounded by the monks' main living quarters.
Very little remains of these buildings today – the army demolished most of them for their stone . . . — — Map (db m126122) HM
The Gatehouse
Tynemouth's gatehouse is an imposing piece of architecture. It looks more like part of a castle than an entrance to a monastery.
Tynemouth Priory needed defences because it was so close to the Scottish border and the Scots . . . — — Map (db m126121) HM
In the 11th century, a great Norman baron, Robert Mowbray, earl of Northumbrian, founded a stone church and monastery here and gave the monks a vast area of land.
There were very few stone buildings in the area then and most of the . . . — — Map (db m126123) HM
The Shrine Area
In 1065 the priest at Tynemouth found some human bones under the church – these were believed to be the remains of a Saxon saint, St Oswine.
Local people began to make pilgrimages to his tomb, believing that the . . . — — Map (db m126125) HM
Welcome to Tynemouth Priory and Castle
Today, the headland at Tynemouth is empty and its buildings are ruined. But 500 years ago this area was home to a community of monks.
The ruined church in front of you was part of a rich Benedictine . . . — — Map (db m126119) HM
The Cathedral Church of St Michael
A house of worship, dedicated to the Archangel, St Michael, has stood on this site from the time of Henry I in the 12th Century. From its beginnings as a small Norman chapel, St Michael's progressively enlarged, . . . — — Map (db m124653) HM WM
Chor der
Überlebenden
Choir of Survivors
Geschenk Der Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden Zum 50-Jährigen
Jubiläumder Weihe Der St. Michael’s-Kathedrale Von Coventry
Am 25. Mai 2012
Donation of the Frauenkirche Foundation Dresden
For the . . . — — Map (db m124647) HM
This Tower and Spire formed the centre of the Church of the Grey Friars built in 1350 with stone from a quarry nearby owned by the Black Prince.
The Friary was demolished in 1512 but the spire was left standing in a garden until 1829 when . . . — — Map (db m124934) HM
Coventry Cathedral – Living Icon of Reconciliation and Hope
In 1940 this building, together with much of the city, was destroyed by fire bombs. Resolved to live out the Christian message of forgiveness, and running counter to the feelings of . . . — — Map (db m124659) HM WM
Ecce Homo
The ststue was carved by Sir Jacob Epstein during 1934 – 5 from a block of Subiaco marble. It was given to Coventry Cathedral at the wish of Lady Epstein and dedicated on 22 March 1969.
Ecce Homo represents Christ before Pilate . . . — — Map (db m124658) HM
Godiva, Lady of Coventry
(died 10th September 1067) and her husband
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
(died 28th September 1057) were buried here in the church of the
Benedictine monastery they founded in 1043 on the site of St Osburg’s nunnery, . . . — — Map (db m124907) HM
The north side of the nave was rebuilt in Gothic style in the early 13th century. Pointed arches were supported on typically diamond-shaped bases. The piece of stone on display represents the Gothic architecture of much of the cathedral and . . . — — Map (db m124913) HM
The south side of the nave was built in the 12th century in Norman Romanesque style. The pieces of stone here display the robust Romanesque architecture f this side of the cathedral. The half round shaft is typical of this style and many would . . . — — Map (db m124911) HM
1914 1918
To the Glorious Memory
Of the Officers and Men of
The 7th Battalions
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Who Fell in The Great War
This Tablet was Erected by Their Comrades — — Map (db m124660) WM
The Ruined Cathedral Church of St. Michael
Dates from 1300AD. One of the largest parish churches in England, built originally for the Earl's Half of Coventry, it became the Cathedral of the Diocese of Coventry in 1918. The magnificent west tower . . . — — Map (db m124727) HM
The Sanctuary, built in the 14th century and destroyed in the 20th. The cross of burnt roof timbers, the cross of nails in the cathedral and the altar of broken stones, are symbols of the Christian hope of resurrection after suffering. The Litany . . . — — Map (db m124657) HM
· · nation
shall not
lift up sword
against nation
— neither shall
they learn war
anymore ·
Micah 4 · 3 ·
1940 Coventry 1990
forward in friendship
This plaque
was unveiled by
Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth
The . . . — — Map (db m124654) HM
On this site stood St. Michaels
Baptist Church from 1856 until
November 1940 rebuilt at Quinton
Park, Cheylesmore, Coventry.
New building completed on
original foundations 1991. — — Map (db m124730) HM
The Cloister
The priory cloister was situated on the north side of the cathedral. It formed a square space surrounded by monastic buildings, the most important being the chapter house on the east side. The cloister was important for its seclusion . . . — — Map (db m124914) HM
These chapels were established in the side aisles. They were commissioned in the 14th and 15th centuries for thee use of the Mercantile Guilds in the City.
They were primarily chantries – endowed chapels in which Masses were sung for . . . — — Map (db m124661) HM
Coventry City Council
The Lychgate Cottages
Named after the lychgate, through which funerals once entered Holy Trinity graveyard (Old English lic – corpse). The jetted building has been tree-ringed dated to 1414-15 and is the only . . . — — Map (db m124906) HM
To the left are the arches that lead into the north west tower, constructed in the early 13th century. This is the only ‘room’ surviving from the cathedral. It may have contained a chapel reached via a pointed arch from the north aisle. The two . . . — — Map (db m124910) HM
The South Porch
Built around 130, the porch was retained when the main body of the early English Church was demolished in the 14th to 15th centuries. It is now called the Chapel of the Ressurection; dedicated to Bishop Mervyn Haigh in June 1942. . . . — — Map (db m124645) HM
There is little left of the south west tower of the cathedral except the west wall and part of the spiral staircase found in 1856. The full plan of the 13th century tower was revealed during the 1999 excavations. The square room at the bottom of . . . — — Map (db m124908) HM
The Statue of Christ
This is a second casting, in concrete, of a statue at Blundell's School in Devon. It was created by an 18 year old pupil Alain John. The Headmaster, Neville Gorton, later became Bishop of Coventry and on the death of Alain . . . — — Map (db m124655) HM WM
The Tower & Spire
St Michaels tower was completed in1394 and the Spire in 1433 and today stands at 294 feet. The 14th century Tower was built on the edge of a quarry on poor ground — jumble of rubble in clay with bits of old stone coffins, . . . — — Map (db m124646) HM
The west front is the best preserved part of the nave. Only the interior of the wall can be seen. It was built in the early 13th century as part of a grand re-fronting of the cathedral. It was discovered in 1856 when the Blue Coat School was being . . . — — Map (db m124909) HM
You are standing upon the site of three ancient edifices
On the summit of hill top (approximately on this site) a convent was established about the year 650 A.D. By a Saxon lady later canonised under the name of St Osburg. The convent was . . . — — Map (db m125064) HM
Stonehenge is a prehistoric temple, its great stones raised about 4,500 years ago. It is a masterpiece of engineering, with stones carefully arranged to line up with the movements of the sun.
The ruin that we see today is the end result of many . . . — — Map (db m76858) HM
Evesham Abbey was once one of the most important monasteries in England, but now there is little evidence of its former splendour. The churches of St Lawrence and All Saints, the Bell Tower and the Almonry escaped demolition in 1540, but these . . . — — Map (db m233329) HM
The churches of St Lawrence and All Saints have served as parish churches for the town of Evesham since the 12th century. They were built for the use of the townspeople following the growth of Evesham as a market town. The Abbey Church was reserved . . . — — Map (db m245559) HM
Saint Alban's Church may have originated in Roman times, although there is no conclusive evidence to support such an early date. However, it is believed that a church was in existence here by c.720. The present building is at least Norman (c.1175) . . . — — Map (db m245565) HM
This Gateway was broken through the Abbey Wall July 1503 in honour of the Princess Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, who was the guest of the Lord Abbot of St Mary’s for two days on her journey to the North as the Bride of James IV of Scotland. — — Map (db m125439) HM
Near this place Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to the Faith, established the religious foundations of Western Christendom.
( . . . — — Map (db m125244) HM
Guy Fawkes
Hereabouts lived the parents of Guy Fawkes of Gunpowder Plot fame, who was baptized in St. Michael-Leonard-Belfrey Church in 1570. — — Map (db m125389) HM
Miles Coverdale
c.1488 – 1569
Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell.
He was a . . . — — Map (db m125432) HM
Our Lady’s Row, Goodramgate
The oldest surviving row of houses in York built in 1316 in the churchyard of Holy Trinity to endow a chantry of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The name Goodramgate derives from Gutherungate (12th century) an Anglicised form . . . — — Map (db m125429) HM
St Martin-le-Grand A mainly 15th century church, pre Conquest in origin, largely destroyed by fire in the air raid in 1942. The tower was completed before 1437. The Great West Window, considered to be one of the finest early 15th century windows . . . — — Map (db m125253) HM
Welcome to St Mary’s Abbey
Once the richest monastery in the north of England, sketched by Turner
JMW Turner visited York several times during his long association with Yorkshire. In 1797 during his first tour, the artist visited St . . . — — Map (db m125339) HM
St. Michael-Le-Belfrey
The only pre-Reformation church in York to have been built all at one time (1525 – 1536) by John Forman, Master Mason to the Minster. Guy Fawkes was baptized here on 16th April 1570. — — Map (db m125211) HM
St. Sampson’s Church
The Church is first mentioned in 1154. Its Tower was damaged by cannon balls in 1644 and the Church was largely rebuilt in 1848. The adjacent door is fifteenth-century. The redundant Church was taken over by the York Civic . . . — — Map (db m125391) HM
The upper storey of this building was the meeting place of York Methodists from 1753 to 1759. John Wesley, Charles Wesley and George Whitefield preached here on several occasions during that time, The actual room which the Methodists occupied was . . . — — Map (db m125392) HM
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