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Dudley Castle Dudley in the Domesday Book of 1086. Dudley has a history dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, [6] its name deriving from the Old English Duddan Leah, meaning Dudda's clearing, and one of its churches being named in honour of the Anglo-Saxon king and saint, Edmund.
He was part of a British Council of Churches Inter-Church Task Force on South America, visiting El Salvador and Nicaragua in 1984. In 1986 he visited Minsk, in Soviet Russia as part of a West Midlands delegation for One World Week. In 1987 he made a study tour of the GDR looking at the relationship of the churches there to government and society.
The Church of Saint Thomas is a Grade II* listed Church of England Anglican parish church in Dudley in the West Midlands County of England. Known locally as 'Top Church', as opposed to the 'Bottom Church' of St. Edmund's, it was originally established in the 12th century, [3] when it was dedicated to Thomas Becket who had been murdered a few years before.
The land on which the church was built was donated by the Earl of Dudley. [1] The churchyard contains the mass unmarked graves of the victims of cholera that struck Dudley in 1831 and 1832. [5] It was originally just a chapel-at-ease to St Thomas's of Dudley, only becoming Netherton's parish church on December 1, 1844.
Gervase founded a Cluniac priory in Dudley dedicated to St James, [9] [10] fulfilling a wish of his father, Ralph. [11] It is also thought that he founded the Church of St Thomas in Dudley. [12] The church was originally dedicated to Thomas Becket, who was killed in 1170 and canonized in 1173. Gervase attended the coronation of King Richard I ...
The Dudley Hill area, where the town center is located, had a longer history as a Nipmuc settlement, and some of its land was granted for the erection of the first church in 1734. After American independence, the town center grew, with the Black Tavern (c. 1803) serving travelers, and Nichols Academy (founded 1815) located there.
Dudley's Chapel is a historic Methodist church located at Sudlersville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was built in 1783 and is a simple brick structure with a moderately pitched gable roof. A coat of stucco was added in 1883, covering all of the original brickwork.
Henry C. Dudley (1813–1894), known also as Henry Dudley, was an English-born North American architect, known for his Gothic Revival churches. He was a founding member of the American Institute of Architects and designed a large number of churches, among them Saint Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse, New York, built in 1884, [1] [2] [3] and Trinity Church (Elmira, New York), completed in ...