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Boston Church – William Henry Bartlett (1854)
William Henry Bartlett provides some beautiful illustrations of Boston’s church, town hall, and the medieval buildings that adorn the town. He compliments this with an emotional narrative of the Pilgrim’s ill-fated attempt to flee to Holland from…
Type: Tourist Guide
Tags: William Brewster
St Helena Church, Austerfield - William Henry Bartlett (1854)
William Bradford was baptised in St Helena’s Church, Austerfield. Since William Henry Bartlett’s description and illustration of the building in the 1850s the church has reflected is association with the New Plymouth Governor. In 1897 the north aisle…
Type: Tourist Guide
Tags: William Bradford
Plaque, All Saints Church (Babworth, 1955)
William Brewster and William Bradford, according to most historians, worshipped at All Saint’s, Babworth, under the preacher Richard Clifton, until each broke with the established church in the early 17th century. The church dates to around the 15th…
Type: Plaque
Plaques and tablets, Boston Guild Hall (Boston, 1951 and 1955)
Boston’s Grade I listed Guild Hall dates from the late 14th century, and serves today as the town’s museum. From the late 16th to early 19th century it was used as the council house of the town corporation – and space below as a prison. In 1607,…
Type: Plaque
Tags: Anglo-Americanism, Civic pride
Butten Meadow mural (Austerfield, date unknown)
William Butten, servant to Samuel Fuller, died during the Mayflower’s voyage across the Atlantic. There is no strong evidence to tie him to Austerfield (William Bradford’s parish), but he is memorialised nonetheless in this striking Delft-tiled mural…
Type: Public Art
Tags: William Bradford
Christopher Jones Statue, St Mary the Virgin Church (Rotherhithe, 1995)
Captain Christopher Jones was based in Rotherhithe, on the Thames, with the Mayflower; he was buried in the grounds of St Mary’s Church in 1622 (though the grave is now lost). A blue plaque on the church states ‘In 1620 the Mayflower sailed from…
Type: Public Art
Christopher Martin plaque, St Mary Magdalen (Great Burstead, 1995)
Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Essex. Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell, was at one time a churchwarden in Great Burstead – though went on to get himself in trouble for dissenting from the…
Type: Plaque
Altrincham Celebrations (1920)
Tercentenary celebrations in the town of Altrincham, Greater Manchester, centred around the Baptist and Free Church communities. Sermons were preached at the Baptist Church by a number of local notables. These touched on common themes, like the…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tercentenary celebrations, Baxter Church, Kidderminster (Sept-Oct, 1920)
At the time of the Mayflower tercentenary, it would have been difficult to find a more fitting venue for commemorating the Pilgrim Fathers than Baxter Church in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Baxter Church was named for the well-known Puritan Richard…
Type: Religious Celebration
Beckenham, Bromley Lecture (late September, 1920)
The Beckenham Men’s Brotherhood, as part of the Mayflower voyage anniversary in 1920, was treated to a lecture by Mr J.F. Chapter. He emphasised the importance of practical faith in God’s will and duty towards one’s children and family as key lessons…
Type: Public Lecture
Tags: nonconformity, Tercentenary