St Mary Somerset
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St. Mary Somerset was a church in the City of London first recorded in the twelfth century. Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, it was one of the 51 churches rebuilt by the office of Sir Christopher
Photo of the tower of St. Mary Somerset
St Mary Somerset in the Wyngaerde panorama
Gilbert Ironside the younger
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Gilbert Ironside the younger was an English churchman and academic, Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1667, Bishop of Bristol and Bishop of Hereford.
St Mary Somerset
…from the Coal Tax. The rebuilt church was smaller than its predecessor, for a strip of land was taken by the city to widen what was then Thames Street. Bishop Gilbert Ironside, Chancellor of Oxford University, who defied James II in upholding the rights of Fellows, was buried here in 1701. His remains and his black marble…
Bp Gilbert Ironside the Younger