The final part of my trip was a little stopover in the London area before my flight home to Maine (where I'm now trying to recover from jet lag). As with much of the trip, I wanted to take the opportunity to see a few important church history sites, so I spent the day checking off a few more cathedrals (St Albans, Southwark, and St Paul's) and zipping around the Tube to see churches and memorials associated with some of my post-Reformation heroes.
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Stayed at the Highbury Centre, the same place my friends and I had stayed during a college semester in London some 20+ years ago |
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At the Isaac Watts memorial in Abney Park |
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John Wesley's memorial and historic chapel |
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John Bunyan's memorial in Bunhill Fields |
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St. Mary Woolnoth, John Newton's church |
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The old pub on Fleet Street that G. K. Chesterton frequented |
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Southwark Cathedral, where Shakespeare was a parishioner |
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The Lancelot Andrewes memorial in Southwark Cathedral |
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Metropolitan Tabernacle, Charles Spurgeon's old church |
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Holy Trinity Church in Clapham, the church that William Wilberforce and his friends attended in London |
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The altar in St. Paul's Cathedral, where (in a previous edifice) John Donne had served as rector |