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St Endellion is a Prebendal church. The church stands near an ancient, probably early Brittonic, cemetry, so that the church-site, may have origins

Launceston Priory was established in the 12th century, and became one of the wealthiest in Cornwall.

St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, a splendid town church of the early 16th century.

Originally used as a girls’ church school until 1950 and then variously as a Conservative Club and veterinary supplies storage and distribution cen

This building was acquired by Sikhs in 1978 to replace the city’s first Gudwara which had been originally 1958 at 8 St.

The Owen Street Mosque moved into a building originally erected in 1901 at the City Street Mission.

The Bristol and West Progressive Jewish congregation was formed in 1961 and met briefly in members’ houses then met at the meeting house of the Red

This scroll now in the Bristol and West Progressive synagogue has a remarkable provenance.

The St Paul's Carnival is a barometer of the social and ideological changes within Bristol's race relations.

While the civil rights marches and bus boycotts took place in the Southern States of the USA here in Bristol in 1963 black workers had to fight the

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