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| Little Chantry | Early Victorian Tudor style house | |
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| Edward Orpin's House | Plaque on Orpin's Grave | |
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| Abbey House | Dutch Barton | |
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| Church House | Druce's Hill House | |
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| Old Church House | Old Church House | |
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| The Town Hall | Coppice Hill off Silver Street |
Starting at the top of the Church Street I show first Little Chantry, a house of five bays with a three bay pediment. Across the road is the Tudor style house built in the middle of the 19th century. As one descends towards the church there is Orpin's house on the left hand side. It was formerly a 17th century glebe cottage and was the home of Edward Orpin, Clerk of the Market. Almost directly opposite in the churchyard is his grave, with the plaque reading:
"Here lies Edward Orpin, who died June 1781. He was the subject of the picture The Parish Clerk, by Thomas Gainsborough, PRA"
Abbey House is late 18th century and has a doorway with a pediment supported on Tuscan columns. Also on the north side of the road is Dutch Barton used in the 17th century to accommodate Flemish weavers. They were brought to Bradford on Avon in 1659 by Paul Methuen and in 1674 by William Brewer, two of the local clothiers. Just to the north stands Druce' Hill House built in the early Georgian period.
Old Church House was built by Thomas Horton in the 16th century and has buttresses on the ground floor. Church House is Georgian and has three large bays and a pediment over the central bay.
On the corner of Church Street and Market Street is the Town Hall, now a Roman Catholic Church. It was built in 1855 on the site of the former Market Tavern of about 1636. The architect was Thomas Fuller of Bath who went on to design the parliament building in Ottawa. Coppice Hill has a row of gabled three storey houses with 17th century mullion windows.
The Buildings of England, by Nikolaus Pevsner, revised
by Bridge Cherry, first published 1963, 2nd edition extensively revised 1975,
Penguin, ISBN 0 14 0710.26 4
A Town Guide to Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, pamphlet available at the
Tourist Information Bureau.
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