Stone plaque № 11560

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# Stone Plaque № 11560 Standing before Kingsgate House on Southampton Row, you're encountering a monument to one of Victorian London's most influential Baptist voices—this is where Alexander Maclaren, the towering preacher and biblical scholar, delivered sermons that shaped nonconformist Christiani...

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Kingsgate House, Southampton Row

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As I walked through the wildreness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; & I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream THIS MEMORIAL STNE WAS LAID BY ALEXANDER MACLAREN DD LITTD PRESIDENT OF THE BAPTIST UNION 1875-6 AND 1901-2 ON WEDNESDAY 24th APRIL 1901