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However, this is just one of its numerous and varied functions. In Issue 3, Alfred Hawkins explores the fascinating history of this chapel which has served, and continues to serve, the Tower’s diverse community over the centuries.
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Bedwell’s engineering projects included overseeing the construction of Dover Harbour, advising on the reinforcement of Portsmouth’s defences, and working on the defences of the River Thames at Tilbury and Gravesend in 1588, during the Spanish Armada.
#OTD 30 April 1595, Thomas Bedwell, mathematician, military engineer and Keeper of the Ordnance Store at the Tower of London, died. He was a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received a BA and MA.
“After moving house, I found myself living close to Little Moreton Hall, I visited frequently, and inevitably I fell under its spell. History has always been a love of mine. It was Little Moreton, and joining the team here, that sparked my love of the Tudor era.”
Bedwell was buried within the Tower of London, in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula. The Chapel is perhaps most well-known by history lovers as the final resting place of the Tudor queens and nobles who met a gruesome death within the Tower’s walls.
In Issue 22, for ‘A Coffee Break with Dawn Lacey’, Dawn Lacey shares with Janine Sterland how Tudor life is reimagined through her role as a National Trust Living History Interpreter at Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire.
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