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In the mid-1830s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Winchester Corn Exchange Company", to finance and commission a corn exchange for the town. [2] The site they selected was open ground which had been occupied by a garden known as "Forstersplace" in the 15th century.
St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Winchester, England. It was built in 1924 and designed by Frederick Walters in the Gothic revival style. It is situated on Jewry Street, backing onto St Peter's Street, next to Milner Hall, in the centre of Winchester. It is a Grade II listed building.
Amherst Street, William F. Hottle House, 132 Amherst Street, Winchester, Winchester, VA: 3 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey; Amherst Street, Dr. William P. McGuire House & Office, 120 & 124 Amherst Street, Winchester, Winchester, VA: 8 data pages at Historic American Buildings Survey
A substantial part of the former County Gaol, rebuilt 1788 and 1803 of three storeys in Classical style, the predecessor of the present Winchester Prison and now converted to commercial use, survives in Jewry Street. [4] Winchester Prison was built between 1846 and 1850 to a Victorian radial design, with five 'spokes' radiating from a central ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district administered by Winchester City Council in Hampshire. Winchester Name Location Type Completed Date designated Grid ref. Geo-coordinates ...
The area that is now Winchester was first settled beginning in the 1640s, and was known as South Woburn. What is now the town center began as the site of a grist mill and bridge on the Aberjona River. The community remained largely agrarian until the Boston and Lowell Railroad was built through the area in 1835. This spurred immediate growth ...
There was an archa in the city, and the Jewish quarter was located in the city's heart (present day Jewry street). There were a series of blood libel claims against the Jewish community in the 1220s and 1230s, which was probably the cause of the hanging of the community's leader, Abraham Pinch, in front of the synagogue of which he was the head.