Stratford Martyrs Memorial

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51°32′30″N 0°00′09″E / 51.541561°N 0.002618°E / 51.541561; 0.002618

A contemporary engraving of The Martyrs' Memorial in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist Church, Stratford, which was unveiled by Lord Shaftesbury on 2 August 1879.

The Stratford Martyrs Memorial is a memorial that commemorates the

Marian persecutions
.

In 1879, a large monument was erected in

The monument was paid for by public subscription; the chairman of the appeal committee was Rev. William Jay Bolton, the Vicar of Stratford. It was inaugurated in a ceremony on 2 August 1879, presided over by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who made a strongly anti-Catholic speech. The opinion of The Graphic, a national weekly newspaper, was that "Language of this sort is better calculated to wound the feelings of many good people than to break down barriers that already too effectually divide the different denominations."[3]

References

  1. ^ St John's Church, Stratford E15: The Martyrs Memorial
  2. ^ Historic England, "Matrys' Memorial (1190750)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27 June 2017
  3. ^ The Graphic: August 9, 1879 (p.139) – MARTYRS' MEMORIAL

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