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  St Clement Danes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St Clement Danes is a church in the City of Westminster, London.
However, St Clement Eastcheap, in the City of London, also claims to be the church from the rhyme.
The location, between Westminster and the City of London, was home to a large number of Danes; being a seafaring race, the Danes named the church they built after St Clement, patron saint of mariners.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Clement_Danes   (733 words)

  
 St. Clement Danes: Religious Life: St. Clement Danes parish church | British History Online
CLEMENT DANES, which served the entire parish alone until the parish was united to St. Mary le Strand in the 20th century, existed by 1173 when Henry II granted the church of St. Clement 'called of the Danes', (fn.
In 1324 the priory received license to alienate the advowson of St. Clement Danes and their property in the parish to the bishop of Exeter, in exchange for property in Warwickshire, and the grant took place in 1325.
In 1233 John the parson of St. Clement Danes held a plot of land on the south side of the Strand not far from the church, but it is not known whether this was in his own right or in that of his church.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=8403   (3356 words)

  
 St Clement Eastcheap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St Clement Eastcheap is a church on Clement's Lane, near Eastcheap in the City of London.
The church claims to be the one featured in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons.
However, St Clement Danes, in the City of Westminster, also claims this honour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St_Clement_Eastcheap   (122 words)

  
 Victorian London - Districts - Streets - Strand
When the two churches of St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand are swept away, and Booksellers’-row disappears, the Strand may become a noble thoroughfare; but at present there is no street of equal importance in any capital of Europe so unworthy of its position.
In the distance may be seen the spire of St. Clement Danes' and the tower of the Royal Palace of Justice.
Clement Danes' (where the Danes come in nobody knows for certain) occupies a commanding position near the eastern end of the Strand.
www.victorianlondon.org /districts/strand.htm   (968 words)

  
 Kaleidos in Action at St. Clement Danes
Clement Danes, is a mixed, all ability secondary school situated in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, which currently has over 1,100 pupils with 240 pupils in the Sixth Form.
Clement Danes has always strived to be innovative with the delivery of its curriculum and have identified opportunities where technology can help to support their outstanding curriculum leaders.
Clement Danes are looking forward to upgrading to Version 2 of Kaleidos allowing them to see who accessed the work, how much work they did and how successful they were.
www.rm.com /Secondary/Articles/ArticleDetail.asp?cref=HA227940   (714 words)

  
 Strand, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St Clement Danes is believed to date back to the 9th century, but the present building is mainly a 17th century work by Sir Christopher Wren.
St Mary-le-Strand was designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1717.
Strand tube station was merged into the new Charing Cross tube station when the Jubilee Line was built (along with the Trafalgar Square tube station on the Bakerloo Line).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strand,_London,_England   (434 words)

  
 London - St. Clement Danes
Nowadays, looking eastward up the Strand, the eye is caught by the two churches of St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Clement Danes, standing isolated in the centre of the roadway, whilst the traffic roars past on either side.
The bells of St. Clement's were added after the church had been rebuilt in 1692, under the supervision of Sir Christopher Wren, who gave his services for nothing in his usual generoushearted way.
Clement's is dear to all true Londoners as Dr. Johnson's church.
www.oldandsold.com /articles05/london14.shtml   (371 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - St Clement Danes Church, Strand, London, UK - A660269
St Clement Danes Church is an isle of humility in a sea of architectural ostentation in the centre of London.
Clement of Rome was Pope until 100 AD when the Emperor Trajan tied him to an anchor stone and threw him into the sea.
These were stowed in the crypt at St Paul's Cathedral (Wren's masterpiece which survived the raids) where, ironically enough, they sustained some superficial bomb damage.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A660269   (1464 words)

  
 Ley Lines
It is a slightly modified Alfred Watkins ley, being extended to St. Clement Danes in the W, with the bearing altered a little.
Clement Danes (30998105) is situated at Aldwych (Alde Wyche or Old Village) in and at an angle to the Strand, as if pointing out the direction of the ley.
The dedication to St. Helen will be considered significant by some ley hunters, as in her pre-Christian form, Elen she was associated with road-building.
www.leyhunter.com /archives/tlh1.htm   (946 words)

  
 Little ones at St Clement's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
St Clement was the 4th Bishop of Rome.
Clement is also patron of the Guild of the Glorious and Undivided Trinity (Trinity House) which looks after lighthouses and lightships.
The anchor was used as a disguised form of the cross in early Christian inscriptions in the catacombs.
homepage.ntlworld.com /robin_edwards/stclements/anchor.htm   (198 words)

  
 City of London Churches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is historically unsure whether the famous nursery rhyme refers to St Clement Danes or St Clements Eastcheap.
Once a year, after a special service, the attending children of St Clement Danes Primary School are each presented with an orange and a lemon.
St Clements has been the central church of the Royal Air Force since 1958, and this is immediately apparent: statues of Dowding and Harris stand outside the entrance, and the floors of the nave and the wide aisle are set with emblems of different squadrons, all in slate.
www.ourpasthistory.com /london/st_clement.htm   (464 words)

  
 Sermon31-10-04
At St Mary le Strand we give our Lady her due recognition on or near to her Nativity, but dear St Clement risks being overlooked if there is not a convenient weekday on which to celebrate him.
St Clement was a disciple of St Peter, he was ordained by the Apostle and ancient sources would suggest that he could have been the second Bishop of Rome, though later tradition inserts St Linus.
St Thomas Becket was also the victim of the blind tyranny of authority, though perhaps he was a more ambivalent character, certainly a less innocent one than the children of 1
www.stmarylestrand.org /Sermon31-10-04.htm   (963 words)

  
 The Hales family
He appears with his wife and two youngest children (Samuel and Mary) as residents of the Bull Inn, Milford Lane, St. Clement Danes, Westminster, in the 1861 census, in which he is called a porter.
In 1871 his widow, then a laundress, was living in the parish of St. Mary le Strand, Westminster, with two of her daughters, and although the street address is not specified, she was next door to her daughter-in-law Rebecca Elizabeth (Keegan) Hales’s widowed mother, Sarah (Bowen) Keegan.
But he and his wife are listed in that of 1891 with their three youngest children, Robert, William, and Elizabeth, at no. 35 Stanhope Street, in the parish of St. Clement Danes, which calls him a basket-maker and indicates that he was blind; his wife was a laundress.
cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca /people/dobson/genealogy/ff/Hales.cfm   (3009 words)

  
 St Clement Danes, The Strand London WC2 : tourist information from TourUK
St Clement Danes derives its name from the earliest church to stand on the site, founded by descendants of the Danish invaders, whom Alfred the Great allowed to remain in London in the 9th century.
The bells of St Clements Danes could be the ones mentioned in the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons' but although the bells play out the tune, St Clement's, Eastcheap, also designed by Wren, is more likely to be the church in the rhyme.
St Clements Danes was damaged by bombing in 1941, and the restoration work was carried out by Anthony Lloyd in 1955.
www.touruk.co.uk /london_churches/stclementsdanes_church1.htm   (470 words)

  
 St Clement Danes Church
The church of St Clement Danes, which served the entire parish alone until the parish was united to St Mary le Strand in the 20th century, existed by 1173 when Henry II granted the church of St Clement ‘called of the Danes’,
In 1277 a papal decree in a suit between the prior and canons of Warwick, and Hugh called English, a brother of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem, confirmed that the church was the property of the priory.
By the mid 15th century the fraternity of St Clement’s maintained a morrowmass priest in the church to pray for the souls of its members, and by 1468 received bequests from parishioners.
www.middlesexpast.net /cdch.html   (3316 words)

  
 This is Local London | CommuniGate | Accommodation
Clement's Heights - a modern block of sheltered housing accommodation for elderly people of limited means, is situated in Sydenham within the London Borough of Lewisham, South-East London, SE26.
"The Heights", as it is affectionately known, is administered and run by the Trustees of St. Clement Danes Holborn Estate Charity.
The Charity has a long history and was founded in 1551 by the parish elders of St. Clement Danes Church situated in the Strand, London, England.
www.communigate.co.uk /london/stclementsheights   (223 words)

  
 FIRST GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was buried on 19 Jan 1847 in Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, London.
She was buried on 17 Jul 1829 in Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, London, UK..
Her address at this time on the 30 Mar 1851 was 48 Carey Street, (St. Clement Danes) Strand, London.
website.lineone.net /~mike_fitch/fitch_trees/fitch6/d178.htm   (158 words)

  
 November 23, Every-Day Book
Clement was a follower and coadjutor of the apostle Paul, who, writing to the Philippians, (iv.
Protestants, in London, are reminded of St. Clement's apocryphal death by his anchor being the weathercock that "turns and turns," to every wind, on the steeple of the parish church of St. Clement Danes in the Strand.
It denotes the efflux of time as a minute-hand upon the clock; it denotes the limits of the parish as a mark upon the boundary stones; it graces the beadles' staves; and on the breasts of the charity children is, in the eyes of the parishioners, "a badge of honour."
www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/327-nov23.html   (1272 words)

  
 March Customs
On or near 31 March every year at St Clement Danes in the Strand, the Oranges and Lemons Service takes place.
This is a children's service, attended by the pupils of St Clement Danes primary school.
When the bells were restored to St Clement Danes in 1920, after they had been silent since 1913 when their timbers were found to be dangerous, the vicar decided to inaugurate the service for children.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Square/7289/mar.html   (597 words)

  
 eBay - st clement, Pottery China, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
St Clement FDC Official Signed Flown Limited Edition.
Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of...
St Clement High School Yearbook 1975 Center Line Michi
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 In Celebration Of Saint George
Many children in England are raised with the story of St. George and the dragon slaying legend.
In actuality, the dragon represents evil and the lady stands for God's holy truth, and so, St. George is deemed a brave martyr who overcame the devil.
George, born in Cappadocia in eastern Asia, was a Christian and the dragon associated with him, was in the Hebrew religion, representative of evil or sin.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/3550/17915   (454 words)

  
 Commemorative Mission to the United Kingdom - Travel Diary - St Clement Danes Church
St Clement Danes Church is the Central Church of the Royal Air Force.
St Clement Danes derives its name from the earliest church on the site.
Interred are the ashes of Sir Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon who treated his renowned 'Guinea Pigs', airmen (including some Australians) who suffered, and lived with, horrendous burns after aircraft caught fire in combat or crashes.
www.dva.gov.au /media/publicat/2003/london/diary/st_clement_danes_church.htm   (360 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
St Clement Danes is twinned with College Paul LANDOWSKI in Paris and Gesamtschule Krefeld-Huls, Germany in a TEP/ULEAC initiative called the 'European Dimension' This involves Year 10 Technology students combining to co-produce Design and Technology projects, using email as the medium of communication.
During this last year we have run this as a lunch time club, but during the coming year it will be incorporated into the curriculum and so now we are planning a tighter time scale for the tasks.
Rolf Willemsen - Fachbereichsleiter Technik/Projektkoordinator, Gesamtschule Krefeld-Huls, and Martin Clark, Head of Technology at St Clement Danes School have devised a 'Smart Wire' project that students at the two schools are currently working on.
atschool.eduweb.co.uk /scdtech/europe.html   (166 words)

  
 St. Clement Danes - Sir Christopher Wren - Great Buildings Online
One of 52 city churches in London by Wren, built to replace churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
"S. Clement Danes, Strand (1680-2) (gutted 1941, partially restored 1958) with a graceful spire indimishing stages, added by Gibbs in 1719-22, and S.
"St. Clement Danes is the central church of the Royal Air Force.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/St_Clement_Danes.html   (216 words)

  
 The Royal Air Force - Chaplaincy Branch - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gutted by fire in 1941, this fine Wren building was rebuilt by the Royal Air Force to become their central church, commemorating RAF personnel killed on active service.
Its island location in the middle of the Strand is curiously symbolic, for here an atmosphere of peace and quiet prevails, quite set apart from the noise and traffic outside.
St Clement Danes is a living church, prayed in daily and visited throughout the year by thousands seeking remembrance, solace and renewed hope.
www.raf.mod.uk /chaplains/clement.html   (136 words)

  
 Islands 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In June 1780, at St Lucia, Commander Peter Clemens relieved McLaurin and was in command when Rattlesnake sailed from Portsmouth on 13th March 1781 as part of a force under Johnstone intended to capture the Cape of Good Hope.
Came on board one of the Lieutenants of the Scepter (sic) and robbed the ship of the cloths (sic) left by two deserters.” The inference is that besides their pay, the personal possessions of deserters were forfeit to the owners by ancient custom of the sea.
She was baptised at Southwark and in 1825 married Charles Joseph Fitzwilliam at St Clement Danes.
www.mortlock.info /encyclopedia/islands2.html   (3915 words)

  
 CAF SPEECH AT ST CLEMENT DANES CHURCH, LONDON – 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
St Clement Danes is the spiritual heart of the RAF.
It is also a very special place for the RAAF, particularly for those members of our great generation who served in the European Theatre in World War II.
In closing, I would like to address all the members of our World War II generation who are represented here today by the Australian Commemorative Mission.
www.defence.gov.au /raaf/corporate/leaders/html/clement.html   (859 words)

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