Elizabeth Fry - Memorials

Memorials

Two plaques commemorate her birthplace, at Gurney Court, off Magdalen Street, Norwich, and her childhood home of Earlham Hall. There is also an Elizabeth Fry Road in Earlham. There is another plaque at St. Mildred's Court, City of London, where she lived when she was first married, which in turn is commemorated in St. Mildred's Road in Earlham.

On the campus of The University of East Anglia there is a modern building named in her honour. It is home to the university's School of Social Work and Psychology and is used many other schools for general teaching.

There is a terracota bust of her in the gatehouse of HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs.

There is a stone statue of her in the Old Bailey.

A plaque has been placed at the site of Arklow House, her home and place of death in Ramsgate by the Ramsgate Society.

Her resting place at the former Society of Friends Burial Ground, off Whiting Avenue in Barking, Essex, was restored and on 8 October 2003, a new commemorative plinth made of marble was officially unveiled.

Elizabeth Fry is also depicted on two panels of the Quaker Tapestry, panels E5 and E6.

In February 2007 a new plaque was placed in her honour on the Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane, Norwich.

The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies honours her memory by advocating for women who are in the criminal justice system. They also celebrate and promote a National Elizabeth Fry Week in Canada each May.

Since 2001 Fry has been depicted on the reverse of £5 notes issued by the Bank of England. She is shown reading to prisoners at Newgate Prison. The design also incorporates a key, representing the key to the prison which was awarded to Fry in recognition of her work.

There is an Elizabeth Fry Ward in Scarborough Hospital in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

In the Lady Chapel of Manchester's Anglican Cathedral one of the portrait windows of Noble Women on the West wall of the Chapel features Elizabeth Fry.

On the former British television series Rumpole of the Bailey, a replica of the Elizabeth Fry statue in the Old Bailey is featured prominently in scenes set in the lobby.

There is a road named after Elizabeth Fry at Guilford College, a Quaker Founded School in Greensboro, NC

There is a bust of Elizabeth Fry located in the Study Area of East Ham Library, Newham Borough of London.

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