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99 unusual facts about St Mary


Alvingham Priory

St Mary's Church was originally a chapel belonging to the priory.

Ancient Society of College Youths

Its members hold regular practices at these towers, as well as at St Pauls Cathedral, St Mary-le-Bow and Southwark Cathedral.

Anne Dalgarno

She married Kenneth John Dalgarno, a civil engineer, on 1 July 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

Anthony Minichiello

On 22 January 2012, Anthony Minichiello wed Australian shoe-designer, Terry Biviano, in one of the most lavish ceremonies held at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

Arthur P. Luff

(Lond.) in 1883, and then studied at the medical school at St Mary's Hospital, qualifying as a doctor in 1886.

Charles John Johnston

He was educated at Wellington Commercial and Grammar School, and was later educated in England at the Catholic College of St. Mary in Derbyshire, and at Kensington Grammar School in London.

City War Memorial, Nottingham

The service of dedication was carried out by Revd. James Geoffrey Gordon the Vicar of St Mary's Church, Nottingham.

Daniel Henry Haigh

On 8 April 1848 he was ordained as a priest at the seminary of St Mary's College, Oscott.

Eggesford

William Fellowes (d.1724) married in 1695 Mary Martyn, daughter and heiress of Joseph Martyn (d.1718) of St Mary-at-Hill parish in the City of London by his wife Mary.

Fabian Stedman

While in London Fabian became a member of the Scholars of Cheapside, a society of ringing that practised at St Mary-le-Bow; the famous great bell of Bow from the nursery rhyme.

Frederick Rolfe

In 1887 he was sponsored to train at St Mary's College, Oscott near Birmingham and in 1889 was a student at the Scots College in Rome, but was thrown out by both due to his inability to concentrate on priestly studies and his erratic behaviour.

Hans Feibusch

He worked in a number of Anglican churches in the Diocese of Chichester, including the Pilgrim's progress at St Elisabeth's Eastbourne, Christ in Majesty at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea, the Prodigal Son in All Saints, Iden, and St John Baptising Christ in the baptistery at Chichester Cathedral.

High Bridge, Reading

The first crossing of the Kennet in Reading was at Seven Bridges, into the most ancient part of the town around St Mary's Butts.

History of education in Scotland

He assisted in the reconstruction of Marischal College, Aberdeen, and in order to do for St Andrews what he had done for Glasgow, he was appointed Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, in 1580.

Humphrey Verdon Roe

Before he met his wife, Roe had attempted to found a birth control clinic in Manchester, offering to finance St Mary's Hospital for the purpose.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

Mark Burchill

He attended St Mary's Academy, Bathgate followed by St. Margaret's Academy, Livingston, where his footballing ability became apparent.

Medical slang

There is an annual round-up of the usage of medical slang by British physician Dr. Adam Fox of St Mary's Hospital, London.

Patsy Biscoe

She won a classical singing scholarship after making an unscheduled appearance at the St Mary's College annual eisteddfod.

Pygostyle

The term must have been known as early as around 1400 AD, when a carpenter had been contracted to provide new choir stalls for St Mary's Church, Nantwich.

Richard Tecwyn Williams

In 1949 he took up the chair of biochemistry at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London where, in the 1950s, he worked on the metabolism of thalidomide.

Saint Alkmund's Way Footbridge

In 2007 Derby City Council demolished and rebuilt the footbridge over St Alkmund’s Way to link the city centre with St Mary’s Church.

Séamus Cunningham

In 1987 he was appointed pastor of St. Mary’s Cathedral Church and a canon.

Southampton City Centre

The scheme has the backing of Southampton City Council and will, as part of the process, restore the link between East Street and St. Marys.

St Mary, Hadleigh

The north wall has a painting of the head of Christ by Maggi Hambling.

In the Doomsday Book there is mention of a church at “Hetlega” being owend by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canturbury.

The foundation of the church at Hadleigh has been strongly associated with Danish leader Guthrum who made peace with King Alfred the Great in 878.

St Mary's Abbey, York

In 1318 the abbot received royal permission to raise the height of the wall and crenelate it; a stretch of this wall still runs along Bootham and Marygate to the River Ouse.

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

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

St Mary's Anglican Girls' School

In 2005, the St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School Foundation purchased 100 acres of land in the Margaret River Wine Region.

St Mary's Bay, Kent

Situated on Romney Marsh, St Mary's Bay has a long sandy beach which stretches north to Dymchurch and south to Littlestone-on-Sea.

St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

There is Holy Communion at Christmas (which Wodrow calls Yule) and Easter with, in 1713, an altar being set up in anticipation (perhaps an indication that Communion was infrequent).

St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick

In 1111, the Synod of Rathbrassil decided that "St. Mary's church" would become the cathedral church of the Diocese of Limerick.

Limerick Cathedral (St Mary's) is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1168 and is the oldest building in Limerick which is in daily use.

St Mary's Cathedral, Perth

St Mary's Cathedral, Perth, officially the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, and seat of its Archbishop, currently Timothy Costelloe.

St Mary's Church, Acton Burnell

The font is said to have been moved from a chapel at Acton Pigott, which had become disused by about 1730.

St Mary's Church, Bolsterstone

A vicarage was added in 1862, in 1870 Bolsterstone became a parish in its own right and included nearby Stocksbridge and Deepcar.

St Mary's Church, Bungay

This contains a 17th-century Flemish panel depicting the Resurrection that was given to the church by the author H. Rider Haggard.

St Mary's Church, Chastleton

Other notable burials in the churchyard include those of Alan Clutton-Brock of Chastleton House, Newbury Racecourse manager Geoffrey Freer and C.L.T. Walwyn, father of racehorse trainer Peter Walwyn.

St Mary's Church, Cheadle

There are windows in the sides of the chancel dating from the 1860s by Charles Gibbs, and windows elsewhere by Mayer of Munich.

St Mary's Church, Chepstow

At the same time he established a nearby monastic cell, so as to collect rent from the lands within Gwent which he had granted to his home Priory of Cormeilles in Normandy.

St Mary's Church, Cilcain

The east window contains stained glass which is said to be dated 1546; it depicts the Crucifixion.

St Mary's Church, Derwen

The stained glass in the south chancel window was designed by H. E. Wooldridge and made by James Powell and Sons; it is dated 1869 and depicts the Nativity, the Resurrection and the Ascension.

St Mary's Church, Eccleston

Elsewhere in the church are memorials to the 4th Duke, and to Captain Hugh William Grosvenor, who was killed in the First World War.

St Mary's Church, Edwinstowe

It is visited by tourists, who come to see the church where, according to legend, Robin Hood and Maid Marian were married.

St Mary's Church, Ellesmere

The east window in the south chapel, dating from 1883, is by Burlison and Grylls, and depicts Christ and saints.

St Mary's Church, Elsing

The brass memorial to Sir Hugh Hastings (died 1347), the largest of all English church brasses, has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner as “the most sumptuous of all English church brasses”.

St Mary's Church, Ewell

A fire in 1973, started by the explosion of the church's central heating boiler, destroyed the North Aisle and everything in it, including an organ built in 1865 by "Father" Henry Willis, except a print of The Light of the World by famous painter and local resident William Holman Hunt, who painted the original by the disused gunpowder mills in Kingston Road.

St Mary's Church, Fordingbridge

The church choirs and instrumental groups can be heard each Sunday supporting services such as the Family Communion, Matins and traditional Evensong whilst the Praise band, Identity, play for the popular modern Praise!

St Mary's Church, Hampstead

No taller than houses numbered 4 and 5 to either side, the Church’s distinctive façade with bell tower and statue of Virgin and Child was designed by architect William Wardell as the first addition to the original building at the time the law was changed to allow bells to be rung from Catholic churches in 1852.

William Wardell (1823–1899), a civil engineer and architect, Catholic convert and designer of the church's façade and belltower (added c.1852).

St Mary's Church, Handsworth, Sheffield

It was founded by the Norman lord, William de Lovetot, or his father Richard, and the foundations were planned by William Paynel.

St Mary's Church, Hendon

The churchyard is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation together with the neighbouring Sunny Hill Park.

St Mary's Church, Ickworth

The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.

The ICCT was set up by the 8th Marquess of Bristol to safeguard the future of Ickworth Church.

St Mary's Church, Luton

The current site of the church itself was built by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester in 1121 and consecrated in 1137.

All this work was carried out with the help of Lord John Wenlock, whose family had been connected with the church since 1389.

St Mary's Church, Mellor

The stained glass includes windows in the south aisle by Capronnier dating from the later part of the 19th century, and a window in the north aisle dated 1928 by Whitefriars.

St Mary's Church, North Leigh

The parents of the Civil War Speaker of the House Commons, William Lenthall, came from North Leigh and are buried in the church.

St Mary's Church, Patshull

St Mary's was built in about 1743, and was designed by James Gibbs for Sir John Astley.

St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio

St Mary's Church, Rhodogeidio is a small medieval church, dating from the 15th century, near Llannerch-y-medd, in Anglesey, north Wales.

St Mary's Church, Roecliffe

The stone used in its construction came from an old Roman quarry in the grounds of Aldborough Manor, and from a quarry at Cotgrove, while the stone for the internal arch was from Burton Leonard.

St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury

In the south chapel is glass from the church of Saint-Jacques in Liège.

These include an inscription in the tower to the memory of Robert Cadman, a stunt-man who was killed in 1739.

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn is a medieval church near Aberffraw in Anglesey, north Wales.

St Mary's Church, Walberton

The white slab shows Cook crushed under a fallen tree, watched by a laughing skeleton to the left, a hat-wearing man (who is holding an axe) and Father Time (carrying his traditional scythe and hourglass) to the right, and a company of trumpet-playing angels above.

St Mary's Church, West Chiltington

These architectural features allowed worshippers in the aisle to see the bread and wine being consecrated during the Celebration of the Eucharist.

St Mary's Church, Wilton

Restoration was undertaken between 1933 and 1939, by Robert Worth Bingham, who was the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1933 to 1937, who claimed descent from Robert de Bingham.

In 1845 a new Church of England parish church of St Mary and St Nicholas was built at the instigation of the Countess of Pembroke and her younger son Baron Herbert of Lea, designed by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt and D. Brandon in the Italianate Romanesque style, with considerable Byzantine influences.

St Mary's Church, Wirksworth

It is one of the few remaining churches in Britain which still performs the ancient custom of Clipping the church.

St Mary's Church, Woolton

The stained glass in the east window dates from 1878, and is a typical design by Capronnier.

St Mary's College, Auckland

St Mary's College is a year 7 - 13 integrated Catholic girls' high school situated at 11 New Street, Ponsonby, Auckland.

During the 20th Century, under the outstanding direction of the late Dame Sister Mary Leo, the school produced many singers of international fame, notably Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Mina Foley.

St Mary's College, Maryborough

Originally called the Christian Brothers College, Maryborough, Saint Mary's College is a parish school which comprises the amalgamated schools of the Christian Brothers College, Maryborough, and Saint Mary's Girls High School.

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad

: For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School

St Mary's Crossing Halt railway station

St Mary's Crossing Halt was opened on 12 October 1903 on what is now the Golden Valley Line between Kemble and Stroud.

St Mary's Grammar School

Student who excel in the various activities get to win prizes which are always linked to the Irish Language, such as Gael Linn or Foras na Gaeilge merchandise.

Jim Eastwood - one of the final four contestants in the 7th UK series of The Apprentice

St Mary's Mbeya Secondary School

It serves students from the Tanzania Southern Highlands, Dar Es Salaam, Morogoro, Arusha, and Iringa regions.

St Mary's Music School

Scottish Government funding, up to 100%, is available through the statutory Aided Places scheme to assist with the cost of tuition and boarding fees.

The school is surrounded by gardens in the heart of Edinburgh's West End and has good transport connections due to its proximity to Haymarket railway station.

St Mary's Old Church, St Mary's

Among them are Sir John Narborough and his brother James, the sons of Rear Admiral Sir John Narborough, who both died in the sinking of HMS Association in 1707.

St Mary's Orthodox Church, Kallooppara

Mary's Orthodox Church, situated at the heart of a small village called Kallooppara (on the banks of the river Manimalayar), Pathanamthitta District, Kerala, India is a prized possession of Malankara Sabha.

St Mary's Parish Church, Hampton

The old church also housed a school room and provided a master for Hampton School, from 1557.

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth

From 1835 to 1851 the Roman Catholic minister in Monmouth was Thomas Burgess who went on to be the Bishop of Clifton.

St Mary's Roman Catholic High School, Chesterfield

:For schools with a similar name, see St. Mary's Roman Catholic High School.

Former Australian international cricketer Jason Gillespie has visited the school, and there is a picture of him in the sports hall to commemorate this.

St Mary's Syro-Malabar Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral

The local Christian community in and around Changanachery inherits its faith directly from St. Thomas the Apostle, who formed a Christian community of faithful, centered around Niranam in the 1st century.

St Mary's, Barkly West

Sadler had been recruited in England during Bishop Robert Gray’s recent visit there.

R.W. Murray, accepting office as secretary, advocated the erection of a church building and in February 1871 the British High Commissioner Sir Henry Barkly, during his visit, laid the foundation stone.

Within a month, “Church of England Services” were being advertised and held at Pniel, “in the new church tent”; in the Music Hall at Klipdrift (afterwards called Barkly West); and also at Good Hope.

St Mary's, Stretton

(...) dedicated to St. Mary, it was designed by J. T. Micklethwaite of Westminster on an aisled, cruciform plan with a massive crossing tower.

St Marys railway station

St Mary's tube station, disused underground station in Whitechapel, London, UK

Thomas L. Cleave

Between 1922-27, he attended medical schools at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and St Mary's Hospital, London, London, achieving MRCS and LRCP.

William Lethaby

He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire.

Wythall

St Mary's Anglican church has a roof and stair turret added by W.H. Bidlake.


Albert Lacombe

For the remainder of his life, Lacombe played a major role in founding schools throughout the West, such as St Mary's School in what is now the Mission District of Calgary.

Caerau Hillfort

St Mary’s church probably dates to the 13th century, and is set within an oval churchyard.

Cardiff Deanery

The dean will be Monsignor John Maguire, current dean of Cardiff West and parish priest at St Mary's Canton.

Cheapside Hoard

The location, a row of houses on the south of Cheapside, to the east of St Paul's Cathedral and to the west of St Mary-le-Bow, was owned by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and was known as Goldsmith's Row, was formerly the centre of the manufacture and sale of gold and jewellery in medieval London.

Frederick Whitehead

Although he predominantly painted landscapes, he also concentrated occasionally on religious architecture, such as St Mary’s, Warwick, and Gloucester Cathedral.

Joseph MacRory

MacRory taught Scripture and Modern Theology at St Mary's College, Oscott in England until 1889, when he was appointed Professor of Scripture and Oriental Languages at his alma mater of Maynooth College.

Lleweni Hall

St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam, Cheshire, formerly the Cotton family's private chapel, has gates and railings from the hall.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Penwortham Priory

A small castle was built on the hill in Penwortham overlooking the river crossing and the castle mound (the motte) can still be seen behind St Mary's church.

St Paul's Church, Camden Square

It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town.