James Jershom Jezreel, real name James Roland White, (cir 1851 – 2 March 1885) was a British soldier who founded the New and Latter House of Israel religious sect — known as the Jezreelites — in England. Jezreel’s main beliefs were based upon the writings of Joanna Southcott

Joanna Southcott

Joanna Southcott , was a self-described religious prophetess. She was born at Gittisham in Devon, England.-Self-revelation:...

 (1750-1814). His most notable success was the building of the so-called Jezreel's tower

Jezreel's tower

Jezreel’s Tower was built in Gillingham, Kent, England, by a religious sect founded by James Jershom Jezreel in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1961.- The man who built it :...

 in Gillingham, Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1961.

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Jezreel's tower

Jezreel’s Tower was built in Gillingham, Kent, England, by a religious sect founded by James Jershom Jezreel in the 1880s. It was demolished in 1961.- The man who built it :...

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Further reading

• The tower of mystery surrenders its secrets by Stephen Rayner, Memories page, Medway News, May 2006
• The Sixth Trumpeter by PJ Rogers
• The Times
• D Roberts, Observations on the Divine Mission of Joanna Southcott (1807)
• R Reece, Correct Statement of the Circumstances attending the Death of Joanna Southcott (1815)
• Library of Biography. Remarkable Women of different Nations and Ages. First Series. Boston. John P Jewett and Co. (1858)