
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Abbey Water. Congregational Chapel Burial Ground 1804 -1857 Site of the Dissenters’ Meeting House c1708 -1804. Richard Cromwell, First Lord Protector of England, worshipped here. Recorded plaque organisation: Romsey and District Society.
Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell and briefly the second Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is historically significant for his brief rule and eventual abdication; he worshipped at this Dissenters' Meeting House in Romsey.
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