Martyr's Memorial - Attractions in Oxford

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The Martyr's Memorial

The Martyr's Memorial, where Broad Street meets St. Giles, commemorates the deaths of three prominent Protestant church leaders during the reign of St. Mary.

Bishops Latimer and Ridley were burned at the stake in October 1555, and Archbishop Cranmer followed them in 1556. The flames from the pyre scorched a set of doors, which are now hung between the quads of Balliol College. The actual site of the burning is marked by an iron cross set in the pavement outside Balliol.

The Victorian Gothic memorial, which dates from 1838, has been likened to the spire of a sunken cathedral, and indeed the narrow central pole of the memorial resembles nothing so much as a church spire.

For a more thorough look at the events culminating in the deaths of the Oxford Martyr's see our Oxford History section.

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