Æthelburh of Barking
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Saint Æthelburh or Ethelburga was the founder and first abbess of Barking Abbey and sister of Saint Earconwald, Bishop of London.
Statue of Saint Ethelburga (Nathaniel Hitch, 1890s) at All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London
Statue of Æthelburh in St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate
Saint Earconwald, Bishop of London, founder of Barking Abbey, and Æthelburh's brother.
Modern stained glass window of Saint Æthelburh at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace (east window). Designed in 2002 by Helen Whittaker.
St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate
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St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on Bishopsgate near Liverpool Street station.
Æthelburh of Barking
…central position in the chapel, alongside Hildelith and Wulfhilda. A trio of modern grave slabs at Abbey Green remember the three saints. The church of St Ethelburga the Virgin in the City of London is dedicated to her. It survived the Great Fire of 1666 and the Blitz but was extensively damaged in an IRA attack in 1993…
Current church building
St Ethelburga's in 1927, with shopfronts
The surviving font, inscribed with its palindrome.
Contemporary stained glass window that incorporates surviving pieces of glazing.