Bow Church
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Bow Church is the parish church of St Mary and Holy Trinity, Stratford, Bow. It is located on a central reservation site in Bow Road, in Bow, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. There has been a c
Bow Church in 2008
The Gladstone statue at Bow Church
George Townshend Driffield, Rector 1844–1880
Stratford Martyrs
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The Stratford Martyrs were eleven men and two women who were burned at the stake together for their Protestant beliefs, either at Stratford-le-Bow, Middlesex or Stratford, Essex, both near London, on
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…by cart from Newgate and burned at the stake in front of Bow Church in one of the many swings of the English Reformation. These included the thirteen Stratford Martyrs. In 1719, the parish became independent and St Mary, Stratford, Bow, was consecrated. The parish also included the Old Ford area which has also been…
Frieze on the memorial to the Stratford Martyrs
"The Thirteen Martyrs of Stratford-le-Bow" from a 19th-century engraving
The Martyrs' Memorial in Stratford (with St John the Baptist Church in the background)