The Devil's Acre was a notorious slum near a large, mainly Gothic abbey church that between 1540 and 1556 had the status of what?
Devil's Acre The Devil's Acre was a notorious slum near Westminster Abbey in Victorian London. The Devil's Acre was on and behind Old Pye Street, Great St Anne's Lane (now St Ann's Street) and Duck Lane (now St Matthew Street) in the parish of Westminster St Margaret and St John.
John Philpot John Philpot (1516–1555) was an archdeacon of Winchester and an English Protestant martyr whose story is recorded in "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". He was the third son of Sir Peter Philpot and was born at Compton, Hampshire, in 1516.