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4 unusual facts about St Sepulchre


Relic of the Holy Blood

The relic was sent from the Patriarch of Jerusalem to Henry III of England in 1247, where it was then stored in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in London, before being paraded through the streets by the King and laid to rest in Westminster Abbey.

St Audoen within Newgate

A new parish was created for Christ Church, out of those of St Audoen and St Nicholas, and part of that of St Sepulchre.

St Nicholas Shambles

A new parish was created for Christ Church, out of those of St Nicholas and St Ewin, and part of that of St Sepulchre.

St Sepulchre's Cemetery

George Uglow Pope popularly known as Rev. G.U. Pope or just G.U. Pope, a Christian missionary who spent many years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English.


James Shillaker

He was educated at Taplow Grammar School and the City of London College, benefiting from an educational foundation established in the 17th century for chldren of the parish of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.

Payne Fisher

Fisher died in poverty in a coffee-house in the Old Bailey 2 April 1693, and was buried 6 April in a yard belonging to the church of St. Sepulchre's.

Royal Fusiliers

The Royal London Fusiliers Monument, a war memorial, stands on High Holborn, near Chancery Lane tube station, surmounted by the lifesize statue of a World War I soldier, and its regimental chapel is at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.


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Eden Valley, New Zealand

The building was built in 1865 and was originally a Selwyn Church, known as St Sepulchre’s.

Edward Pierce

He ministered in various parishes in Northamptonshire (at St Sepulchre's, Northampton, 1660 to 1663; Duston, 1662 to 1663; All Saints, Aldwincle and Cottesbrooke, 1663 to 1694) under the patronage of a Northamptonshire landowner, Sir John Langham, who was from Cottesbrooke.