London (South)

…Street Baptist Church) on the corner of East Street and Portland Street; and the Surrey Gardens Memorial Hall in Penrose Street. The last of these was built to commemorate Spurgeon’s…

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Norfolk

…    DEREHAM William Cowper memorial Outside the Cowper Memorial Evangelical Church in the market place is a granite memorial telling us that the gentle poet William Cowper (1731-1800) spent…

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Shropshire

…with libraries.   ROWTON Baxter memorial, Rowton This hamlet was the birthplace of Richard Baxter (1615-1691) and the event is marked by a squat granite memorial on a grassy triangle…

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Bedfordshire

…century, the cottage where Bunyan was born stood beside a brook that runs between Elstow and Harrowden.   The site is marked by a rough granite memorial erected in 1951, which…

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Cumbria

…many doctrinal storms and remains a source of sound Biblical teaching. Thomas Battersby memorial There is a marble memorial to Battersby in the south aisle of St John’s Church (CA12…

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Nottinghamshire

…far from the city centre. Together with adjoining properties on either side, this forms the three-storey red brick William Booth Memorial Museum, which can be visted by appointment. A statue…

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Warwickshire

…SHELDON Squeezed between the urban sprawl of Birmingham and its airport, this village is not a natural tourist destination. Thomas Bray (1656-1730) came here as rector in 1690. In 1695…

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Bristol

…of his 6,000 verses here.  Still owned by the Methodists, the house carries a memorial plaque, but can only be visited by appointment. It was in Dighton Street, running parallel…

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Cornwall

…which is a memorial to Henry Martyn. It has windows with Cornish saints in the upper halves and scenes from the life of Martyn below. These include his education at…

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Surrey

…the site is called Wesley House (KT22 7AH) and carries a memorial plaque. It was used as council offices from 1935 to 1983. Wesley died a few days later but…

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