SANDBACH: TOWN CENTRE

No. 1: Sandbach Crosses
No. 2: St. Mary's and St. John's
No. 3: The town centre

Grid Ref: St. Mary's SJ 757 607 27 June & 10 July 2005

 

Swan & Chequers spacer Fountain
The Swan and Chequers   Fountain
Town hall   Detail of town hall
Town Hall   Detail of Town Hall doorway
Old Bear Inn   Tower chequer
The Old Black Bear Inn, dated 1634   The Lower Chequer
Row of houses evening   Row of houses morning
The row below the church in evening Light   As left but from the south in morning light
House of 1570   Alms houses
House dated 1570   Alms Houses
Old Hall Inn   Old Hall Inn
Old Hall Hotel   West end of Old Hall Hotel

The fountain in High Town Square dates from 1897 was erected in 1897 with Tuscan columns. It is in front of the Literary Insitute built by Scott in 1857, which is not shown as it was shrounded with scaffolding when I visited.

The Town Hall foundation stone was laid on 2 July 1889. It was designed by Thomas Bower of Nantwich and built by John Stringer of Sandbach. The site was given by the Rt. Hon. Hungerford Lord Crewe. Just to the left of the town hall is the market hall. Below the church on the east side there is a very deeply cut street running north south and further east again an attractive row of houses running down towards the east. On the opposite side of the road and at a much higher level is the Old Hall Hotel, which dates in part from 1656. The brick built alms houses date from 1856-7 and were built by the Rev. John Armitstead.

Sources:

The Buildings of England, Cheshire, by Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard, Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0 300 09588 0

 

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