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33 unusual facts about St. Mary's Church


1886–87 St. Mary's Y.M.A. season

The club played their "home" games on Southampton Common although a practice match on 2 October 1886 was played in the grounds of the Deanery, opposite St.Mary's Church.

Bombardier Billy Wells

His ashes were laid to rest in the crypt of St. Mary's parish church in Hanwell, west London.

Gdańsk astronomical clock

The Gdańsk astronomical clock is a fifteenth-century astronomical clock in St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk.

Ghorpuri

St. Mary's Church, Pune is located in Ghorpuri, and is the oldest church in the Deccan region.

Henry Robert Clifton

He was the only son of the Rev. Henry Spencer Markham (1805-1844), Rector of St. Mary's Church, Clifton and Prebendary of York, and his wife Sophia Charlotte.

Jack McVitie

The twins quickly fled the scene and McVitie's body was deposited wrapped in an eiderdown and left outside St. Mary's Church, Rotherhithe by Tony and Chris Lambrianou and Ronnie Bender, who were minor members of the Firm.

Master of 1518

A group of unsigned paintings is attributed to this artist on stylistic grounds, and his name is derived from the date inscribed on the painted wings of a carved wooden altarpiece of the Life of the Virgin in St. Mary's Church in Lübeck German.

Rose Mead

Two painting Friday Morning at St Mary's and My Mother were shown in the 1899 exhibition.

St. Mary's Church, Broadwater

John Mapulton (also known as John Mapilton), rector of the church between 1424 and 1431 was clerk to the Court of Chancery and was chancellor to Queen Joanna, widow of Henry IV.

St. Mary's Church, Castlemartin

The church has hosted Mass on a number of occasions, as well as family weddings, such as those of Susan Cameron to Tarik Wildman (before an Episcopal Dean) and of Gavin O'Reilly to Alison Doody, and at least one funeral, that of Tony O'Reilly's mother, Alison.

Invitees included family, friends and locals, with Tony O'Reilly's mother as guest of honour and hymn selector, music by Caroline O'Reilly and John Grogan, prayers by Tony O'Reilly, Junior and readings by Cameron O'Reilly and Tony O'Reilly's friend, rugby player Peter Kininmonth.

St. Mary's Church, Chennai

This ancient prayer house solemnized the marriages of both Robert Clive and Elihu Yale.

Numerous memorial-plaques and monuments exist within the church of which two, that of Sir Barry Close, who was Adjutant General to Gen. George Harris at the Siege of Seringapatam, and gave his name to Closepet, and that of Lt. Col. Joseph Moorhouse, who was killed at the Siege of Bangalore, in the Third Anglo-Mysore War, would be of particular interest to the historian.

Though it now has a tower to the west of the nave, this was not part of the original design but was rather added at the end of the seventeenth century on the orders of Sir John Goldsborough.

On 6 October 1968, the 250th anniversary of the naming of Yale College for Elihu Yale, the classmates of Chester Bowles, then the American ambassador to India, donated money for lasting improvements to the church and erected a plaque to commemorate the occasion.

St. Mary's Church, Grodno

Local bishop of Grodno Aleksander Chodkiewicz financed the reconstruction and by 1674 the church regained its former look.

St. Mary's Church, Hanwell

The famous painter William Frederick Yeames, who at one time was this building's churchwarden, is thought to have done the wall paintings in the chancel.

Despite a gallery being built in 1823 the old Georgian building became too small for the growing population.

St. Mary's Church, Helminghausen

Young men of the town Helminghausen built the church with timber; two steel bells came from the “Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gussstahlfabrikation”.

St. Mary's Church, Higham Ferrers

St Mary's Church, Higham Ferrers is a parish church in the Church of England in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.

St. Mary's Church, Kilmore, County Wexford

They have been sung without a break since they were introduced to the parish by Very Rev. Peter Devereux, who was Parish Priest circa 1751.

Mary's Church of Ireland Church is the parish church of Kilmore, County Wexford in the southeast of Ireland.

The remainder were written by Bishop Luke Waddinge of Ferns.

Some of them were written by Very Rev. William Devereux, P.P., Piercestown, a native of Tacumshane, where he is buried.

St. Mary's Church, Lübeck

The famous Totentanzorgel (Danse Macabre organ), an instrument played by Dieterich Buxtehude and, due to requests asking for it to be examined when it needed repair, most probably Johann Sebastian Bach, was also destroyed.

In the early 20th century, St Mary's organist Walter Kraft (1905–1977) tried to revive the tradition of Abendmusiken, with an evening of Bach's organ music then an annual program of combined choral and organ works.

The Briefkappelenorgel (Letter Chapel organ), a singularly manualed instrument with 16 voices was constructed by Johannes Schwaz in 1723 and from 1724 served as the organ of the Schloßkapelle (Castle Chapel) of Dönhofstädt near Rastenburg.

St. Mary's Church, Noida

The church is situated less than 1 kilometre from Noida City Centre metro station

St. Mary's Church, Pune

The foundations of the building were laid by Bishop Reginald Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta, in 1825.

St. Mary's Church, Ramersdorf

The pilgrimage began with a relic, a crucifix which had been handed over to Emperor Louis IV by Antipope Nicholas V and which was later donated to the church by one of the emperor's sons, likely Duke Otto V.

St. Mary's Church, Rotherhithe

The ship's final journey to the breaker's yard at Deptford was made famous by Turner in his evocative painting The Fighting Temeraire, now in the National Gallery.

St. Mary's Church, Walthamstow

In the same year, money from Robert Thorne (a wealthy London merchant who, like Monoux, originated from Bristol and became Lord Mayor of the City of London) was used to completely rebuild the south aisle and to add a chapel on its eastern end.

In 1535, Sir George Monoux, Alderman of London and Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, one of the guilds of the City of London, repaired the north aisle and built a chapel on the east end of it running along the north wall of the chancel.


1890–91 St. Mary's F.C. season

Canon Basil Wilberforce remained as Honorary President although Dr. Russell Bencraft, the senior committee member, was responsible for the running of the club.

Bertha of Kent

The present St Martin's at Canterbury continues in the same building as the oldest church in the English-speaking world and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage site.

C. Y. O'Connor

On 7 December 1898, his daughter Eva married Sir George Julius at St John's Church, Fremantle, Western Australia.

Charles Ignatius White

His classical studies were made at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmittsburg, and at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, and his theological course at St. Sulpice, Paris, where he was ordained priest on 5 June 1830.

Fisherton Delamere

The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village.

Frederick Thrupp

Thrupp executed the monument to Lady Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary in Devon; the reredos representing the Last Supper in St. Clement's, York; and the monument to Hugh Nicholas Pearson in Sonning Church, Berkshire, in 1883.

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.

Old St. Mary's

Old Saint Mary's Cathedral, cathedral in San Francisco, California, United States

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.

Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 130 kilometres from the capital city, St. John's, and is within easy distance of the scenic Cape Shore (including the Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve), the Irish Loop and St. Mary's Bay, Conception Bay, and the inner reaches of Placentia Bay.

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.

Rejoice in the Lamb

The cantata was commissioned by the Revd Canon Walter Hussey for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of St Matthew's Church, Northampton.

Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village

A former rector, The Rev. John Scott, was known for having performed an exorcism of the Philadelphia campaign headquarters of Richard Nixon, and was the founder of the Philadelphia Third Order Franciscans, a worldwide lay religious community.

Samuel Rousseau

Baptised Samuel Kent Rousseau in St Ann's Church, Blackfriars, London on 20 November 1763, he was the eldest son of Phillip Rousseau, a printer working for William Bowyer, and his wife Susannah.

San Giorgio in Velabro

St George's Church for a list of other churches worldwide of the same name.

Sean Graham

Then he ran for William & Mary, after which he ran as a full-time professional for Nike's Farm Team and subsequently for Oregon Track Club.

SS Gairsoppa

They are buried at St Wynwallow's, Church Cove, Landewednack.

St Andrew's Church, Westland Row, Dublin

Dominic Corrigan (1802-1880), a noted physician, is buried in the crypt of the church.

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston

A memorial to physician and botanist Dr. William Withering, who pioneered the medical use of digitalis (derived from the foxglove), is situated on the south wall of the Lady Chapel, and features carvings of foxgloves and Witheringia solanaceae, a plant named in his honour.

St David's Church, Exeter

The current building was completed in 1900 and was described by John Betjeman as "the finest example of Victorian church architecture in the south west".

St Dunawd's Church, Bangor Is-coed

Four of these were cast in 1727 by Abraham Rudhall II, one was cast in 1811 by John Rudhall and the sixth was cast in 1865 by Mears and Stainbank.

St George's Church, Worthing

Its boundaries are the railway line to the north, the border with Adur district to the east, the English Channel to the south and the High Street and Steyne to the west.

St Gregory's Church, Vale of Lune

Inside the church are wooden fittings and furniture by Waring & Gillow of Lancaster.

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 Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.

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.

St Matthew's Church, Guildford

It was a small octagonal mud-brick church, hastily built on land donated by Governor James Stirling on his Woodbridge estate, next to where Guildford Grammar School now stands.

St Matthew's Church, Sheffield

It is now surrounded by the Devonshire Quarter of Sheffield, an area of independent retail outlets, pubs and bars with a large student population.

St Michael's Church, Burwell

Set against the wall beneath this is a table tomb dating from the late 18th century, carved with a skull and laurels.

St Michael's Church, Handsworth

It can seat one thousand people, and was built mainly to accommodate workers from the local Soho Manufactory.

St Mihangel's Church, Llanfihangel yn Nhowyn

It was then extended by dismantling and reassembling another Anglesey church, St Enghenedl's, at the west end of the building.

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.

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh

There is a memorial by Thomas Thurlow to George Crabbe the poet (d. 1832) and a monument to Lady Henrietta Vernon, d.1786.

St Werburgh's Church, Bristol

It is now a Climbing Centre run by Undercover Rock, where it houses a balcony cafe, rock walls and surrounding grounds

St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley

According to the church's website, the organ was moved from Manchester's Free Trade Hall and had been the property of Sir Charles Hallé.

St. Basil's Church

Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow

St. Bernard's Church, Gibraltar

St. Bernard's started off as the Roman Catholic church of the British Armed Forces in Gibraltar.

St. Jovan Vladimir's Church

Gregory of Durrës, the archbishop of Dyrrhachium from 1768 to 1772, wrote there the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript, the oldest work of Albanian Orthodox literature.

St. Margaret's Church, Oslo

Margaret's Church was a stone church built in the 13th century, placed in Maridalen in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, close to the northern end of Maridalsvannet.

St. Mary's Orthodox Valiyapally

Harvest festival is celebrated every year on 15 August, which also happens to be the Independence day of India.

St. Mary's School, Pune

From 1866 to 1977, the school was run by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England.

St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool

In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, who became the subject for one of The Beatles' songs.

St. Peter’s Church, Karachi

The church will cater to the people of Akhtar Colony, Mahmudabad, Kashmir Colony and Manzoor Colony.

St. Stephen's Church, Delhi

The church was built in 1862, by Anglican missionaries and DPW Engineers in the style of Italian Gothic architecture.

Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson

At a thanksgiving service at the "journalists' church" St Bride's off of Fleet Street in London Hugh Cudlipp used his address to launch an attack on the state of British tabloid newspapers.

The News at Bedtime

The other main contributors to the programme are Mary Mary, the Contrary Correspondent who reports live from news stories; Peter Rabbi who presents the Thought for the Day religious slot; and weather reporter Dilly Dilly.

Thomas Sim Lee

They founded the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Petersville, Maryland.

WKLR

The station was, for many years, the flagship station for The College of William & Mary Tribe football and men's basketball.