Tyburn with prisoners processed from Newgate Prison in the City, via St Giles in the Fields and Oxford Street. After the late 18th century, when public executions were no longer carried out at Tyburn, they were carried out at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark. The first recorded execution took place at a site next to the stream in 1196. William Fitz Osbert, populist leader who played a major role in an 1196 popular revolt in London, was cornered in the church of St Mary le Bow. He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where
Church bell influence, especially that of Irish missionaries. Before the use of church bells, Greek monasteries would ring a flat metal plate (see "semantron") to announce services. The "signa" and "campanae" used to announce services before Irish influence may have been flat plates like the "semantron" rather than bells. The oldest surviving circle of bells in Great Britain is housed in St Lawrence Church, Ipswich. Church bell A church bell in the Christian tradition is a bell which is rung in a church for a variety of ceremonial purposes, and can be heard outside the building. Traditionally they were used to call