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Vineyard Passage Burial Ground is a cemetery in Richmond. Established in 1790 and consecrated in 1791, [23] it was enlarged in 1823. [7] The last burials were in 1874. [23] Managed by Richmond upon Thames Council and maintained by volunteers from the Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, [24] [25] it is now a garden of rest. [26]
The Abbey Church of St Peter and St Paul, more usually called Dorchester Abbey, is a Church of England parish church in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. It was formerly a Norman abbey church and was built on the site of a Saxon cathedral .
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Dorchester on Thames (or Dorchester-on-Thames) is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Wallingford and 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Oxford. The town is a few hundred yards from the confluence of the River Thames and River Thame. A common practice of the scholars at Oxford was to refer to the river Thames ...
The City of Richmond began work to remove the city-controlled statues, beginning with the Stonewall Jackson monument, on July 1, 2020. [42] Matthew Maury's statue was removed on July 2, and J. E. B. Stuart's on July 7. [43] The Lee Monument was removed by the Commonwealth of Virginia on September 8, 2021. [44]
The 8-foot-tall statue, which was made in 1925, previously stood in Richmond, Va., but became part of a backlash against controversial historical figures and was defaced by protesters in 2020.
During the many years required to raise the funds needed for the memorial, various designs and placements in the city were considered. [8] Unveiled in 1907 on Confederate Memorial Day – June 3 [7] [10] – on what would have been Davis' 99th birthday, the monument was funded by the Jefferson Davis Monument Association and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Grove Gardens Chapel is built in a cruciform plan of Kentish ragstone with Bath stone detailing. [18] There is evidence to the west end of the tiled roof of a flèche.The entrance arch is inscribed with a truncated quote from John 19:41 from the King James Bible, ‘In the Garden there was a new sepulchre, there laid they Jesus’. [19]