Tyburn Tree was the gallows where, during the years of intense persecution, 350 British Catholics were martyred, often hung, drawn and quartered, starting in 1535 with John Houghton, ...

Tyburn sits at the top of Hyde Park, by Marble Arch, a public execution site from 1196 to 1783. During the Reformation, from 1535 to 1681, 105 Catholics were hanged - and sometimes drawn and quartered ...

At Tyburn Tree, St. John Houghton embraced his executioner and sang the first verses of Psalm 31: ‘In thee, O Lord, do I seek refuge’ A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

The Tyburn Tree plaque seems even more modest when compared with the elephantine public sculptures that have been deposited at Cumberland Gate. In a poem written for a BBC documentary in 1968, John ...

In 1196 he became the first to be executed on the notorious Tyburn Tree, where the Edgware Road starts (it was never a tree, by the way, but a wooden scaffold). Dean Mahomed opened London's first ...

Tyburn Tree, preceded by a performance of Harle's Songs of Earth, is at The Barbican 2 March, 7.30pm.Tickets are £15-£25 plus booking fee. Look out, also, for a range of events as part of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a city full of memorials only an obscure plaque is spared for Tyburn gallows where as many as 60,000 people ...