Frances Ridley Havergal plaque

The public map records this plaque for Frances Ridley Havergal. Its recorded inscription reads: To the Glory of God and in ever loving memoriam FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Christian poetess and hymn writer who lived at this house and died here on 3rd June 1879 "She being dead yet speaketh" Erected by public subscriptions July 1937

Frances Ridley Havergal was a prominent Christian poet and hymn writer whose works, including "Tell Me the Old, Old Story," have endured in religious literature; she lived and died in the house commemorated by this plaque.