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unusual facts about St Margaret's School Hampstead


St Margaret's School Hampstead

In her final year, the Board of Education inspectors described her as “a woman of culture and ideals to whom the School is much indebted for all her educational work”.


Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

The mediaeval convent of St Margaret's, abolished by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, was for centuries just 400 yards along the lane.

Binsey, Oxfordshire

Binsey's most noted feature is the Church of England parish church of St Margaret, set at some distance north of the surviving houses.

Church of St Anne, Aigburth

The church adjoins St Margaret's Church of England Academy and is used at times as the venue for carol and other services.

Fiona Woolf

Woolf attended St Denis School (now part of St Margaret's School), Edinburgh.

Flame fougasse

A further variant of the hedge hopper idea was devised for St Margaret's Bay where the barrels would be sent rolling over the cliff edge.

Jill Ellison

She was educated at St Margaret's School, Bushey and now heads the Nurse Directors Association (NDA/UK).

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

Between 1868 and 1886 he financed the rebuilding of St Margaret's Parish Church, Roath, Cardiff, creating a new mausoleum for the Bute family with sarcophagi in red marble.

John Strange Winter

She was born on 13 January 1856 in Trinity Lane, York, was only daughter of Henry Vaughan Palmer, rector of St. Margaret's, York, by his wife Emily Catherine Cowling.

Parliament Square

Buildings looking upon the square include the churches Westminster Abbey and St Margaret's, Westminster, the Middlesex Guildhall which is the seat of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Government Offices Great George Street serving HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs, and Portcullis House.

Richard V. Allen

Richard Allen is also a fellow of St Margaret's College, Otago, one of New Zealand's most prestigious residential colleges.

Sir Samuel Fludyer, 1st Baronet

Fludyer died in 1768 and was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Lee.

St Margaret-at-Cliffe

At the other end of the beach there are cottages, two of which were owned by Noël Coward and Ian Fleming.

Sir Peter Ustinov was stationed in the village during WWII and liked it so much that he bought a house on the cliffs after the war.

The house is now owned by Miriam Margolyes, both have hosted functions to raise funds for the new village hall.

St Margaret's CE Academy

The school is on Aigburth Road (A561) just north of Aigburth railway station in Aigburth, just east of Otterspool.

St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh

According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle.

St Margaret's Church, Burnage

Also dating from 1950 is a window in the baptistery depicting Scouts, Guides, Cubs and Brownies.

St Margaret's Church, Durham

The eagle lectern dates from 1909, and was given in memory of members of the Shafto family killed in the Boer War.

St Margaret's Church, Prestwich

In order to care better for the Simister end of the parish, a new church was designed by R. Basnett Preston in a combination of Romanesque and vernacular revival styles and built in 1915 on a site given by the V Earl of Wilton in Nutt Lane, Simister.

In 1875, parishioners affiliated to St Margaret's presented a petition to the Bishop to request that the church be licensed for marriages, and a license for Holy Matrimony was duly granted.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

Also in the vestry are three early 17th-century cast iron grave tablets commemorating members of the locally important Infeld family of Gravetye Manor.

St Margaret's College

St Margaret's College, Otago, hall of residence of the University of Otago, New Zealand

St Margaret's School, Bushey

Christabel Bielenberg 1909-2003 (née Burton), author of best-selling novel 'The Past is Myself' 1968, made into a TV drama 'Christabel'1988.

The Clergy Orphan Corporation paid for a new school building to be erected on land bought in St John's Wood next to Lord's Cricket Ground, and both boys and girls moved there in 1812.

St Margaret's, Corsley

St Margaret's, Corsley, is the Parish Church of Corsley in Wiltshire.

St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam

Its benefice is combined with those of St Michael, Baddiley, and St Margaret, Wrenbury.

The Superstation Orkney

The Superstation started broadcasting under a 3 month trial Restricted Service Licence awarded by Ofcom on Saturday September 4, 2004, from the MV Communicator, berthed at St Margaret's Hope.

Thomas Brittain Vacher

His son, the architect Sydney Vacher, designed the elaborate pulpit in St Margaret's church, Westminster as a memorial to him.

Wolf's Castle

Several churches are to be found in the area – St Margaret's in Wolfscastle itself, St Michael's in Treffgarne, and St Dogfael's at St Dogwells (a grade II* listed building).


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