The three were tried at
University Church of St Mary the Virgin, the official church of the
University of Oxford on the
High Street. The martyrs were imprisoned at the former
Bocardo Prison near the still extant
St Michael at the Northgate church (at the north gate of the city walls) in
Cornmarket Street. The door of their cell is on display in the tower of the church.
The martyrs were burnt at the stake just outside the city walls to the north, where
Broad Street is now located. Latimer and Ridley were burnt on 16 October 1555. Cranmer was burnt five months later on 21 March 1556.
A small area cobbled with stones forming a cross in the centre of the road outside the front of
Balliol College marks the site. The
Victorian spire-like
Martyrs' Memorial, at the south end of
St Giles' nearby, commemorates the events. It is claimed that the scorch marks from the flames can still be seen on the doors of Balliol College (now rehung between the Front Quadrangle and Garden Quadrangle).
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