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The St. Johns Post Office is an example of a small community post office constructed in the 20th Century Georgian style (also Colonial Revival-style) typical of Depression Era federal architecture. The building exhibits classical symmetry and proportion, yet is a transitional building in that it lacks the archaeological detail of classically ...
In 1289, John de Rye donated 160 acres (65 ha) of land to St John's Abbey in Colchester. As a token of appreciation, a manor and farm were named after him (Rye Manor and Rye Farm respectively). At the end of the 15th century, the Abbey built a toll-gate house, now called the Greate House (originally the Gate House) near Malting Green.
St John's Abbey, also called Colchester Abbey, [1] was a Benedictine monastic institution in Colchester, Essex, founded in 1095. [2] It was dissolved in 1539. [1] Most of the abbey buildings were subsequently demolished to construct a large private house on the site, which was itself destroyed in fighting during the 1648 siege of Colchester.
The CO postcode area, also known as the Colchester postcode area, [2] is a group of sixteen postcode districts in the east of England, within nine post towns.These cover northeast Essex (including Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea, Halstead, Harwich, Manningtree and Walton-on-the-Naze) and a small part of south Suffolk (including Bures and Sudbury).
St Leonard's-at-the-Hythe is a large medieval church at Colchester's Hythe river port. [21] Along with St John's Abbey it was one of the two ecclesiastical buildings in Colchester which contained clocks. [13] The church was the site of a battle during the 1648 Siege of Colchester, and its south door still contains firing loops for muskets. [22]
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Looking south on Ipswich Road from the Great Eastern Main Line towards Colchester town centre. Ipswich Road, formally the A1232, is a road in Colchester, Essex, England.It was the historic coaching route and main road to Ipswich from the Middle Ages onwards, and was part of the A12, a main road in East Anglia, until the A12 was rerouted in 1974.
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