Oxford - Martyrs' Memorial

A cross in St Giles Street marks the spot where the reformers Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer were burned at the stake. They are also commemorated by the Martyrs' Memorial (by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1841). Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, were martyred on October 16th 1555 and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, on March 21st 1556. Cranmer was examined from September 1555 to February 1556 in the hall of the Divinity School.