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  2. Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford - Wikipedia

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    Designed by George Gilbert Scott, the monument was completed in 1843 after two years' work, having replaced "a picturesque but tottering old house".The Victorian Gothic memorial, whose design dates from 1838, has been likened to the steeple of a cathedral, though it was consciously patterned on the Eleanor crosses erected by King Edward I between 1290 and 1294 to the memory of his wife, Queen ...

  3. Oxford Martyrs - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. [ 1 ] The three martyrs were the Church of England bishops Hugh Latimer , Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer , the Archbishop of Canterbury .

  4. List of martyrs' monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford Plaque commemorating Robert Ferrar , Nott Square, Carmarthen , Wales Martyrs' Monument, St Andrews, which commemorates Patrick Hamilton , Henry Forrest , George Wishart and Walter Milne

  5. Category:Martyrs' monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Martyrs Monument in Midway; Martyrs' Mausoleum; Martyrs' Memorial, Oxford; Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument; Mersin Martyrs' Memorial; Museum of Martyrdom of the Blessed Father Jerzy Popiełuszko

  6. List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation

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    Oxford Martyrs 71. Hugh Latimer (or Latymer) Baxterley, Warwickshire [103] clergyman – chaplain to King Edward VI burnt 16 October 1555 outside Balliol College, Oxford [7] [104] 72. Nicholas Ridley: Fulham Palace: clergyman – Bishop of London under Edward VI Canterbury Martyrs of November 1555 73. John Webbe (or Web) gentleman burnt 30 ...

  7. Oxford War Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Oxford War Memorial. Oxford War Memorial is a First World War memorial in Oxford, at the north end of St Giles', on the junction where the road splits into the A4144 Woodstock Road and the A4165 Banbury Road. The memorial stands in St Giles Memorial Garden, about 150 m (490 ft) to the south of St Giles' Church, Oxford.

  8. University Church of St Mary the Virgin - Wikipedia

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    The martyrs were imprisoned at the former Bocardo Prison near St Michael at the Northgate in Cornmarket Street and subsequently burnt at the stake just outside the city walls to the north. A cross set into the road marks that location on what is now Broad Street ; the nearby Martyrs' Memorial , at the south end of St Giles' Street ...

  9. Broad Street, Oxford - Wikipedia

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    Nearby in St Giles', the events are commemorated with a Gothic Revival stone monument, the Martyrs' Memorial. The city walls were rebuilt in local coral ragstone in 1226–40. [ 4 ] By the 16th or 17th century, improved artillery had made the walls obsolete, so the city divided the town ditch on the south side of Broad Street into a row of ...