Gloucestershire

…Raikes (1735-1811) who pioneered the Sunday School movement, which provided a moral and educational foundation for generations of children.   The Cathedral Bishop Hooper memorial The cathedral stands in College…

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London (City)

…faith. Generals and admirals of the Napoleonic wars, heroes of the Indian Mutiny and commanders of the Second World War all have their tombs, statues or marble plaques. Memorials to…

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Cambridgeshire

…to vast congregations. The present church was built in 1903, but there appears to be no memorial to Spurgeon. The stained glass windows behind the pulpit show scenes from Pilgrim’s…

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Oxfordshire

…personal score for Mary as it was he who had arranged the divorce of her mother Catherine of Aragon from Henry VIII.   Martyrs Memorial Martyrs Memorial Designed by Sir…

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Hampshire

memorials. Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) was bishop for an astonishing forty-two years from 1827. He was a committed evangelical and his appointment showed that opposition by the Anglican hierarchy to…

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Leicestershire

…Gideons organization, which distributes Bibles to schools and hotels is located here, a few yards from the memorial. Wycliffe memorial obelisk Born around 1324, Wycliffe was a native of Hipswell,…

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London (Central)

…statesmen – Peel and Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone – but also memorials those who saw slavery as an offence to the conscience of the nation. A few paces from the…

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Sussex

…to every province of China. On the corner of Holmes Avenue and Nevill Avenue in Hove is Bishop Hannington Memorial Church, built in 1938. It commemorates another pioneer missionary, James…

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Lincolnshire

…by others standing on it in imitation of Wesley, but is recorded on a display board nearby. Red Lion & Market Cross The Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in the High…

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Somerset

…and founder of Methodist missions. Perhaps the Anglicans were embarrassed by their treatment of him, and left his memorial to the Methodists! There is also a Coke Memorial Methodist Church…

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