Editing Thomas More (section)

=== Chelsea Old Church ===
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[[File:Chelsea Old Church 14.JPG|thumb|upright|Statue of Thomas More outside [[Chelsea Old Church]] in west London]]
Across a small park and Old Church Street from Crosby Hall is Chelsea Old Church, an Anglican church whose southern chapel More commissioned and in which he sang with the parish choir. Except for his chapel, the church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1958.<ref name =RBKC>{{cite web |title=Thomas More Comes to Chelsea |url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmhistory/general/vm_hs_p02.asp |website=www.rbkc.gov.uk |publisher=[[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]] |access-date=19 January 2021 |archive-date=21 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621225239/https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmhistory/general/vm_hs_p02.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> The capitals on the medieval arch connecting the chapel to the main sanctuary display symbols associated with More and his office. On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing his ancestry and accomplishments in Latin, including his role as peacemaker between the various Christian European states as well as a curiously altered portion about his curbing heresy. When More served Mass, he would leave by the door just to the left of it. He is not, however, buried here, nor is it entirely certain which of his family may be. It is open to the public at specific times. Outside the church, facing the [[River Thames]], is a statue by British Sculptor, [[Leslie Cubitt Bevis]] erected in 1969, commemorating More as "saint", "scholar", and "statesman"; the back displays his coat-of-arms. Nearby, on Upper Cheyne Row, the Roman Catholic Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer & St. Thomas More honours the martyr.