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3 unusual facts about St Anne's Limehouse


St Anne's Limehouse

The nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Westferry.

Across the road is the former Sailors' Mission, where Situationist International held its conference in 1960.

With the redevelopment of the East London Docklands in the late 20th Century, over 100,000 people work in the Canary Wharf area, and a large part of this centre of business and finance lies within the parish of St Anne's Church.


Adrian D'Souza

He has done his schooling from St Anne's High School, Orlem, Malad.

Daphne Phelps

Phelps attended St Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk, and subsequently trained in psychiatric social work at St Anne's College, Oxford, and at the London School of Economics.

Edward Hannes

Hannes died on 22 July 1710, in the parish of St Anne's, Westminster, and was buried beside his wife at Shillingford, Berkshire, where there was a monument to his memory.

Fort Tourgis

Fort Tourgis is an extensive fortification in Alderney to the north west of St Anne.

Fred Hando

She graduated from St Anne's College, Oxford, and later married George Smith, later Delacourt-Smith, in 1939.

History of Jerusalem during the Crusader period

The Church of St. Anne became a madrasa, and other churches were destroyed and their stones used to repair damage from the siege.

Ivan Foster

In 2002 he preached a sermon in which he condemned Nigel Dodds who accepted an invitation to attend an ecumenical service at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast in celebration of Elizabeth II's golden jubilee.

Ruma Pal

She read for her B.C.L degree at St Anne's College, Oxford and started practice in 1968 in Civil, Revenue, Labour and Constitutional matters in the Calcutta High Court.

Sir Edward Dering, 5th Baronet

Dering remarried some six months later, 11 September 1735, at St Anne's Church, Soho, to Mary, widow of Henry Mompesson, and daughter and coheiress of Charles Fotherby of Barham Court, Kent, by Mary daughter of George Elcocke.

Sir William Ashburnham, 5th Baronet

Baptised at St Anne's Church, Soho on 29 March 1739, he was the eldest surviving son of the Rt Revd Sir William Ashburnham, 4th Baronet, Bishop of Chichester and his wife Margaret Pelham, daughter of Thomas Pelham.

St Anne's Church, Jerusalem

During the Roman Period a pagan shrine to either the Egyptian god Serapis or the Greek god Asclepius, both gods of healing, stood on the grounds next to the two Pools of Bethesda.

In 1856, in gratitude for French support during the Crimean War, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I presented it to Napoleon III.

St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton

The churchyard at St Anne's is the supposed burial place of a 17th-century alleged witch named Meg Shelton.


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