Northamptonshire

…statues of kings, queen and saints, while in the main hall are mural decorations of famous men in Northampton’s history, many of whom we will meet elsewhere in the county…

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Nottinghamshire

…about ten years later. He also attended the church for two years as a young teenager. Samuel Biddulph’s academy William’s father enrolled his only son at Samson Biddulph’s Academy, the…

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Warwickshire

…Trinity Church (CV47 9PN) has made new memorial kneelers for the altar rail in the south aisle. There is also a stained glass roundel to the saint in the window…

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Cornwall

…eighteen times between 1762 and 1789, and a commemorative open-air service has been held annually since 1807. The chapel in front, known as Busveal Chapel, was built in 1836 and…

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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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Norfolk

…fluted pilasters forming a narrow classical-style entrance leading to a quiet cobbled courtyard. On May 21st 1780, Elizabeth Fry, daughter of John Gurney, was born here, although the family later…

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Shropshire

also commemorated by tiles in the chancel with the letters RH – a source of possible confusion as all men had the same initials. Richard Heber also has a memorial

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Somerset

…when Taunton was the scene of skirmishes between rival factions in the Civil War. He returned in 1645 when Parliament was in the ascendant but was ejected in 1662, when

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Yorkshire (South & West)

…Surrey Street also remembers one of the city’s most famous sons   FARSLEY Samuel Marsden memorial garden Just north of Pudsey and forming a western suburb of Leeds, Farsley was…

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Buckinghamshire

…pictures illustrating his humorous poem John Gilpin.  There is also an electrical machine used to treat Mrs Unwin when her right arm and hand were paralysed by a stroke. Garden

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