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Via Sacra WalkCathedral and Cathedral CloseKing Edward’s GateShire Hall – Sir Robert Smirke 1816The Fountain InnBearland House Bearland LodgeLadybellegate HouseBlackfriars St Mary De Crypt Church and SchoolAddison’s FollyGreyfriars FriaryCity Museum and Art GalleryEastgate & City Wall The BastionSt John’s ChurchSt Lucy’s GardenEntrance to Cathedral Way

Martyrs WalkParliament Room St Mary’s Gateway Bishop Hooper’s MonumentSt Mary de Lode Church St Mary’s StreetSt Oswald’s Priory Folk MuseumSt Nicholas Church Cherubs from Booth Hall Statue of King Charles II

Monks and Maritime WalkGloucester DocksLlanthony Secunda Priory

Old Father Time and the Bell WalkRobert Raikes HouseEmperor Nerva Statue9 Southgate Street5 Southgate Street

Park and SpaBrunswick SquareChrist ChurchThe ParkRobert Raikes Statue

Eastgate StreetMarket PorticoGuildhall

Potter and PilgrimsNew InnThe Cross andSt Michael’s Church Tower26 Westgate StreetCollege Court and St Michael’s Gateway

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Walk through the past!

Discover Gloucester’s unique history with the Via Sacra, a circular walk aroundthe City. The route approximately follows the lines of the City walls and isrecognised by the pattern of dark paving in the footpath passing many of theCity’s historic buildings. The walk starts and finishes at the Cathedral and takesabout an hour to walk.

As well as the main Via Sacra route we have added a few little detours totake in more hidden historical gems. Simply follow the marked circular routeson the map and they will eventually bring you back to the main Via Sacra walk.You may want to do them all in one day or why not mix and match the routesand create a number of different walks.

We hope you enjoy the walk.

Gloucester City Council would like to thank Phillip Moss of Gloucester Civic Trust andthe Gloucester Pride Group for their support of this leaflet.

Public toilet Shopmobility ParkingTourist information Church Walk LinksPedestrianised/little traffic

Every care has been taken by Gloucester City Council to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide. You accept all risks and responsibility forlosses, damages, costs and other consequences resulting directly or indirectly from using the guide and any information or material available from it.

To the maximum permitted by law, Gloucester City Council excludes all liability to any person arisingdirectly or indirectly from using this guide and any information or material available from it.

Produced by APT Marketing Solutions 01242 250692.

Park and Spa1. Brunswick SquareThe development of Brunswick Square beganin 1825 on a site just south of the ancient Citywalls. Royalist artillery was stationed here forthe bombardment of Gloucester during theCivil War siege of 1643.

2. Christ ChurchThe Church was built to serve the expandingpopulation of the Spa and was built by ThomasRickman and Henry Hutchinson in the neo-classical style. In 1865 the church was enlargedthen in 1899 – 1901 the original façade and bellturret were removed and replaced with aRomanesque type front.

3. The ParkGloucester Park was created from the Spapleasure grounds laid out in 1815. In 2005/06Gloucester Park had a £1.28 million refurbishment.

4. Robert RaikesStatue

Statue to RobertRaikes, the pioneerof the SundaySchoolmovement.

EastgateStreet1. Market PorticoEntrance portico ofthe former EastgateMarket, originallysituated just westof its present site,dismantled in 1969 andrebuilt in 1973, an exuberant Victorianmonument to the earth’s abundance.

2. GuildhallLate 19th century, Renaissance style buildingon the site of the original Bluecoat School,one of the City’s oldest schools, foundedby a wealthy native in 1666.

Potter and Pilgrims1. New InnBuilt as an inn by St Peter’sAbbey c.1440 to accommodatepilgrims visiting the shrine ofEdward II. At the time ofcompletion it was the largestinn in the county, which heldover 200 people. Remarkablyintact behind the black and

white street façade but still the finest galleriedcourtyard inn of its age in England.

2. The Cross and St Michael’sChurch Tower

The cross has been Gloucester’s focal pointsince its origin; here was the entrance tothe Roman Forum, which extended beneathSouthgate Street, and from Saxon timesthe junction of the City’s four main streets.

3. 26 Westgate StreetGeorgian street façade, but behind it is theCity’s finest timber-framed building. Accessby side door to narrow alley, the medievalMaverdine Lane. A 16th-century four-storeyelevation with carved overhangs and richoriginal detailing.

4. College Court and St Michael’sGateway

Site that inspiredillustrations forBeatrix Potter’sTailor of Gloucester.The gate, in the latePerpendicular style,is to the lay cemeterywithin the St Peter’sAbbey precinct. To theright of the gate canbe seen part of theoriginal abbey wall.

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Via Sacra WalkCathedral and Cathedral CloseKing Edward’s GateShire Hall – Sir Robert Smirke 1816The Fountain InnBearland House Bearland LodgeLadybellegate HouseBlackfriars St Mary De Crypt Church and SchoolAddison’s FollyGreyfriars FriaryCity Museum and Art GalleryEastgate & City Wall The BastionSt John’s ChurchSt Lucy’s GardenEntrance to Cathedral Way

Martyrs WalkParliament Room St Mary’s Gateway Bishop Hooper’s MonumentSt Mary de Lode Church St Mary’s StreetSt Oswald’s Priory Folk MuseumSt Nicholas Church Cherubs from Booth Hall Statue of King Charles II

Monks and Maritime WalkGloucester DocksLlanthony Secunda Priory

Old Father Time and the Bell WalkRobert Raikes HouseEmperor Nerva Statue9 Southgate Street5 Southgate Street

Park and SpaBrunswick SquareChrist ChurchThe ParkRobert Raikes Statue

Eastgate StreetMarket PorticoGuildhall

Potter and PilgrimsNew InnThe Cross andSt Michael’s Church Tower26 Westgate StreetCollege Court and St Michael’s Gateway

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Walk through the past!

Discover Gloucester’s unique history with the Via Sacra, a circular walk aroundthe City. The route approximately follows the lines of the City walls and isrecognised by the pattern of dark paving in the footpath passing many of theCity’s historic buildings. The walk starts and finishes at the Cathedral and takesabout an hour to walk.

As well as the main Via Sacra route we have added a few little detours totake in more hidden historical gems. Simply follow the marked circular routeson the map and they will eventually bring you back to the main Via Sacra walk.You may want to do them all in one day or why not mix and match the routesand create a number of different walks.

We hope you enjoy the walk.

Gloucester City Council would like to thank Phillip Moss of Gloucester Civic Trust andthe Gloucester Pride Group for their support of this leaflet.

Public toilet Shopmobility ParkingTourist information Church Walk LinksPedestrianised/little traffic

Every care has been taken by Gloucester City Council to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide. You accept all risks and responsibility forlosses, damages, costs and other consequences resulting directly or indirectly from using the guide and any information or material available from it.

To the maximum permitted by law, Gloucester City Council excludes all liability to any person arisingdirectly or indirectly from using this guide and any information or material available from it.

Produced by APT Marketing Solutions 01242 250692.

Park and Spa1. Brunswick SquareThe development of Brunswick Square beganin 1825 on a site just south of the ancient Citywalls. Royalist artillery was stationed here forthe bombardment of Gloucester during theCivil War siege of 1643.

2. Christ ChurchThe Church was built to serve the expandingpopulation of the Spa and was built by ThomasRickman and Henry Hutchinson in the neo-classical style. In 1865 the church was enlargedthen in 1899 – 1901 the original façade and bellturret were removed and replaced with aRomanesque type front.

3. The ParkGloucester Park was created from the Spapleasure grounds laid out in 1815. In 2005/06Gloucester Park had a £1.28 million refurbishment.

4. Robert RaikesStatue

Statue to RobertRaikes, the pioneerof the SundaySchoolmovement.

EastgateStreet1. Market PorticoEntrance portico ofthe former EastgateMarket, originallysituated just westof its present site,dismantled in 1969 andrebuilt in 1973, an exuberant Victorianmonument to the earth’s abundance.

2. GuildhallLate 19th century, Renaissance style buildingon the site of the original Bluecoat School,one of the City’s oldest schools, foundedby a wealthy native in 1666.

Potter and Pilgrims1. New InnBuilt as an inn by St Peter’sAbbey c.1440 to accommodatepilgrims visiting the shrine ofEdward II. At the time ofcompletion it was the largestinn in the county, which heldover 200 people. Remarkablyintact behind the black and

white street façade but still the finest galleriedcourtyard inn of its age in England.

2. The Cross and St Michael’sChurch Tower

The cross has been Gloucester’s focal pointsince its origin; here was the entrance tothe Roman Forum, which extended beneathSouthgate Street, and from Saxon timesthe junction of the City’s four main streets.

3. 26 Westgate StreetGeorgian street façade, but behind it is theCity’s finest timber-framed building. Accessby side door to narrow alley, the medievalMaverdine Lane. A 16th-century four-storeyelevation with carved overhangs and richoriginal detailing.

4. College Court and St Michael’sGateway

Site that inspiredillustrations forBeatrix Potter’sTailor of Gloucester.The gate, in the latePerpendicular style,is to the lay cemeterywithin the St Peter’sAbbey precinct. To theright of the gate canbe seen part of theoriginal abbey wall.

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Martyrs Walk1. Parliament RoomLate 15th-century half-timbered hall at first floorlevel, set in 13th-centurystone building where Richard IIheld his parliament in 1378.The building formed partof the domestic ranges ofSt Peter’s Abbey and wasperhaps the Abbot’s Hall.

2. St Mary’s GatewayThe western entrance intothe St Peter’s Abbey precinct.The houses either side areon the line of the precinct wall.This can be seen in placesin St Mary’s Street andThree Cocks Lane.

3. Bishop Hooper’sMonument

19th-century memorial toGloucester’s martyred secondbishop, set up on the sitewhere he was burnt at thestake for his Protestantfaith in 1555.

4. St Mary de LodeChurch

‘Lode’ means watercourse,possibly here the stream whichsupplied St Peter’s Abbey –the Cathedral – with waterbefore flowing into the nowvanished eastern channel ofthe Severn just to the west

of the church. Thechurch towerand someinternal detailsare Norman,the rest early19th century.

5. St Mary’s StreetThe street – medievalWateringstrete – approximatelyfollows the line of a ditchor watercourse outside theprecinct wall of St Oswald’s.The cottages are early16th century.

6. St Oswald’s Priory The standingremainsoriginated asthe north wallof Aethelflaed’sFree ChapelRoyal, foundedin 909. Onelarge round-headed arch isSaxon, the others are of the12th and 13th centuries.The ruin has been in itspresent state since the1643 bombardment.

7. Folk Museum99 Westgate Street.The museum houses an18th-century pin factorytogether with a popularVictorian schoolroom.

8. St Nicholas Church Structure of Norman date andlater. The truncated leaningspire in the Perpendicularstyle is one of the City’s mosthandsome landmarks.

9. Cherubs fromBooth Hall

18th-century carving of theCity Arms on wall of modernbuilding: preserved fromBooth Hall, the medievalancestor of the modernGuildhall, which was situatedbeside the present Shire Halland demolished in 1957.

10. Statue of KingCharles II

Carved in 1662 by StephenBaldwyn and set up in theWheat Market in SouthgateStreet. It was removed in themiddle of the 18th centuryand re-discovered in 1945,in a garden at Chaxhill nearWestbury-on-Severn.

Old FatherTime andthe Bell Walk1. Robert Raikes HouseA fine late 16th-century timberframed house with 18th-

century additionsto its rear. Theinterior is stillimpressive. RobertRaikes a pioneer ofthe Sunday Schoolmovement, livedhere from 1768to 1801.

2. EmperorNerva Statue

Nerva, adistinguishedlawyer, was over60 years of agewhen he wasproclaimedRoman Emperor in

96AD. When he died in 98ADit was said nobody could havedone more for the Empire insuch a short time.

The Roman City of Gloucester was known as Colonia Nerviana

Glevensis and its people wouldhave felt highly honoured thattheir town carried his name.

3. 9 Southgate StreetA Jacobean timber-frontedhouse built by Thomas Yate,Apothecary. (Yate wasdistantly related to theBerkeley’s but their townhouse was in College Green.)

4. 5 Southgate StreetClockmaker’s shop with chimingclock of 1904. The chimesare attended by the figuresof an Irishwoman, John Bull,Father Time, a Scotsmanand a Welshwoman.

Monks andMaritime Walk1. Gloucester DocksIn 1580, Queen Elizabeth Igranted Gloucester the statusof a Port, allowing direct tradewith foreign ports. Tradecontinued to grow over thenext two centuries and in1793, the Act of Parliamentfor the Gloucester andBerkeley Canal was passed.

The superb collection ofwarehouses within thedocks owe their existenceto the corn trade of the19th century, when hugequantities of wheat,oats, barley and maizewere shipped intothe port from Ireland,

North Europe, theMediterranean andthe Black Sea.

Other highlights withinthe docks include MarinersChapel built in 1894 and theDry Docks which were firstcommissioned in 1818 andare still working today.Guided walks of thedocks are availableat the weekendsthroughout thesummer.

2. LlanthonySecunda Priory

Parks and ruins ofLlanthony Secunda Priory,a priory of Augustiniancanons. The church was builtwithin sixteen months and thepriory was completed in 1150.

For more information on the history of Gloucester, why not purchase a copy of Historic Gloucesterby Philip Moss. This illustrated guide to Gloucester will enlighten you further about Gloucester andthe important and sometime troublesome part it has played in English history. This is available fromGloucester Tourist Information Centre, 28 Southgate Street, Gloucester. Tel: 01452 396572.

8. Blackfriars13th-century church andcloister buildings whichform part of the bestpreserved Dominican Friaryin Britain. Guided toursare available at weekendsduring the summer.

9. St Mary De Crypt Church and SchoolThe plan of the church is Norman, though

the structure is mainly Perpendicular stylewith some 13th-century features.

Gloucester’s famous 18th-centurypreacher George Whitefield

delivered his first sermon afterordination in 1734. The school,

built onto the north of thechurch, dates from 1539

with a stone streetfaçade and brickwork

at the back.

10. Addison’sFolly

Built in 1864 inmemory of Robert

Raikes by a local solicitor,Thomas Fern Addison.

11. Greyfriars FriaryThe standing remains of

the nave and north aisledate from the early

16th century when themedieval Franciscan friary

was rebuilt.

12. City Museum and Art GalleryTreasures from all over Gloucestershirereveal the county’s early life – dinosaurbones, unusual Roman remains and theamazing Birdlip mirror, to name but a few!Regular special exhibitions, activities andevents take place and admission is free.

13. Eastgate & City WallRemains of Gloucester’s successive Roman,medieval and post-medieval East Gates.Free tours of the East Gate are available duringsummer months from the City Museum.

14. The BastionRoman city wall showing the meeting-point ofstretches built in the 3rd and 4th centuries. The4th-century build has lower courses of massiveblocks of stone and small rectangular ‘putlog’holes on the inside, where the horizontalstaging of the builders’ scaffolding was set.

15. St John’sChurch

On the site of oneof the City’s tenparish churchesof pre-Norman-Conquest date.The tower andtruncated spire are14th century, therest of the buildingmainly early 18thcentury with fineinternal details.

16. St Lucy’s GardenThe garden was the north-east corner of theSt Peter’s Abbey precinct. The only survivingpiece of the precinct east wall can be seen inthe corner of the garden behind the NorthgateHall. The north wall, which is better preserved,runs along Pitt Street.

17. Entrance to Cathedral WayThe last lap of the Via Sacra leading tothe East window of the Lady Chapel.

1. Cathedral and Cathedral CloseTwelve acres of historic Gloucester,which has remained largelyunchanged for the last 200 years.There has been a religious houseon this site since 679AD and thepresent building was begun inthe 11th century. Guided toursand guide books are availablefrom the Cathedral.

2. King Edward’s GateEntrance from the main street ofmedieval Gloucester to St Peter’sAbbey. The body of King Edward IIwas received here by the Abbotfor burial after the King’s murderat Berkeley Castle in 1327.

3. Shire Hall – Sir Robert Smirke 1816The central Ionic portico formed part of theoriginal Shire Hall building designed by thearchitect, Sir Robert Smirke, in 1816. The grandentrance is said to be styled on the templethat stands on the River Illissus in Greece.

4. The Fountain InnThe 17th-century buildingwith garden courtyard occupiesthe oldest known pub site inGloucester. Brewing wasfirst recorded here in theearly 14th century.

5. Bearland House Dignified townhousebuilt in the 1740sby William Jones,a distinguishedGloucester attorney.The ornamentalfaçade is complementedby a forecourt andfine wrought ironrailings and gate.

6. Bearland LodgeA very attractive early

18th-centuryhouse with an interestingpediment above the façade.

7. Ladybellegate HouseA fine town house built in1705. The Raikes familycame to live here in 1732and remained for manyyears. The interiorcontains some of theCity’s most ornamentalplasterwork.

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Martyrs Walk1. Parliament RoomLate 15th-century half-timbered hall at first floorlevel, set in 13th-centurystone building where Richard IIheld his parliament in 1378.The building formed partof the domestic ranges ofSt Peter’s Abbey and wasperhaps the Abbot’s Hall.

2. St Mary’s GatewayThe western entrance intothe St Peter’s Abbey precinct.The houses either side areon the line of the precinct wall.This can be seen in placesin St Mary’s Street andThree Cocks Lane.

3. Bishop Hooper’sMonument

19th-century memorial toGloucester’s martyred secondbishop, set up on the sitewhere he was burnt at thestake for his Protestantfaith in 1555.

4. St Mary de LodeChurch

‘Lode’ means watercourse,possibly here the stream whichsupplied St Peter’s Abbey –the Cathedral – with waterbefore flowing into the nowvanished eastern channel ofthe Severn just to the west

of the church. Thechurch towerand someinternal detailsare Norman,the rest early19th century.

5. St Mary’s StreetThe street – medievalWateringstrete – approximatelyfollows the line of a ditchor watercourse outside theprecinct wall of St Oswald’s.The cottages are early16th century.

6. St Oswald’s Priory The standingremainsoriginated asthe north wallof Aethelflaed’sFree ChapelRoyal, foundedin 909. Onelarge round-headed arch isSaxon, the others are of the12th and 13th centuries.The ruin has been in itspresent state since the1643 bombardment.

7. Folk Museum99 Westgate Street.The museum houses an18th-century pin factorytogether with a popularVictorian schoolroom.

8. St Nicholas Church Structure of Norman date andlater. The truncated leaningspire in the Perpendicularstyle is one of the City’s mosthandsome landmarks.

9. Cherubs fromBooth Hall

18th-century carving of theCity Arms on wall of modernbuilding: preserved fromBooth Hall, the medievalancestor of the modernGuildhall, which was situatedbeside the present Shire Halland demolished in 1957.

10. Statue of KingCharles II

Carved in 1662 by StephenBaldwyn and set up in theWheat Market in SouthgateStreet. It was removed in themiddle of the 18th centuryand re-discovered in 1945,in a garden at Chaxhill nearWestbury-on-Severn.

Old FatherTime andthe Bell Walk1. Robert Raikes HouseA fine late 16th-century timberframed house with 18th-

century additionsto its rear. Theinterior is stillimpressive. RobertRaikes a pioneer ofthe Sunday Schoolmovement, livedhere from 1768to 1801.

2. EmperorNerva Statue

Nerva, adistinguishedlawyer, was over60 years of agewhen he wasproclaimedRoman Emperor in

96AD. When he died in 98ADit was said nobody could havedone more for the Empire insuch a short time.

The Roman City of Gloucester was known as Colonia Nerviana

Glevensis and its people wouldhave felt highly honoured thattheir town carried his name.

3. 9 Southgate StreetA Jacobean timber-frontedhouse built by Thomas Yate,Apothecary. (Yate wasdistantly related to theBerkeley’s but their townhouse was in College Green.)

4. 5 Southgate StreetClockmaker’s shop with chimingclock of 1904. The chimesare attended by the figuresof an Irishwoman, John Bull,Father Time, a Scotsmanand a Welshwoman.

Monks andMaritime Walk1. Gloucester DocksIn 1580, Queen Elizabeth Igranted Gloucester the statusof a Port, allowing direct tradewith foreign ports. Tradecontinued to grow over thenext two centuries and in1793, the Act of Parliamentfor the Gloucester andBerkeley Canal was passed.

The superb collection ofwarehouses within thedocks owe their existenceto the corn trade of the19th century, when hugequantities of wheat,oats, barley and maizewere shipped intothe port from Ireland,

North Europe, theMediterranean andthe Black Sea.

Other highlights withinthe docks include MarinersChapel built in 1894 and theDry Docks which were firstcommissioned in 1818 andare still working today.Guided walks of thedocks are availableat the weekendsthroughout thesummer.

2. LlanthonySecunda Priory

Parks and ruins ofLlanthony Secunda Priory,a priory of Augustiniancanons. The church was builtwithin sixteen months and thepriory was completed in 1150.

For more information on the history of Gloucester, why not purchase a copy of Historic Gloucesterby Philip Moss. This illustrated guide to Gloucester will enlighten you further about Gloucester andthe important and sometime troublesome part it has played in English history. This is available fromGloucester Tourist Information Centre, 28 Southgate Street, Gloucester. Tel: 01452 396572.

8. Blackfriars13th-century church andcloister buildings whichform part of the bestpreserved Dominican Friaryin Britain. Guided toursare available at weekendsduring the summer.

9. St Mary De Crypt Church and SchoolThe plan of the church is Norman, though

the structure is mainly Perpendicular stylewith some 13th-century features.

Gloucester’s famous 18th-centurypreacher George Whitefield

delivered his first sermon afterordination in 1734. The school,

built onto the north of thechurch, dates from 1539

with a stone streetfaçade and brickwork

at the back.

10. Addison’sFolly

Built in 1864 inmemory of Robert

Raikes by a local solicitor,Thomas Fern Addison.

11. Greyfriars FriaryThe standing remains of

the nave and north aisledate from the early

16th century when themedieval Franciscan friary

was rebuilt.

12. City Museum and Art GalleryTreasures from all over Gloucestershirereveal the county’s early life – dinosaurbones, unusual Roman remains and theamazing Birdlip mirror, to name but a few!Regular special exhibitions, activities andevents take place and admission is free.

13. Eastgate & City WallRemains of Gloucester’s successive Roman,medieval and post-medieval East Gates.Free tours of the East Gate are available duringsummer months from the City Museum.

14. The BastionRoman city wall showing the meeting-point ofstretches built in the 3rd and 4th centuries. The4th-century build has lower courses of massiveblocks of stone and small rectangular ‘putlog’holes on the inside, where the horizontalstaging of the builders’ scaffolding was set.

15. St John’sChurch

On the site of oneof the City’s tenparish churchesof pre-Norman-Conquest date.The tower andtruncated spire are14th century, therest of the buildingmainly early 18thcentury with fineinternal details.

16. St Lucy’s GardenThe garden was the north-east corner of theSt Peter’s Abbey precinct. The only survivingpiece of the precinct east wall can be seen inthe corner of the garden behind the NorthgateHall. The north wall, which is better preserved,runs along Pitt Street.

17. Entrance to Cathedral WayThe last lap of the Via Sacra leading tothe East window of the Lady Chapel.

1. Cathedral and Cathedral CloseTwelve acres of historic Gloucester,which has remained largelyunchanged for the last 200 years.There has been a religious houseon this site since 679AD and thepresent building was begun inthe 11th century. Guided toursand guide books are availablefrom the Cathedral.

2. King Edward’s GateEntrance from the main street ofmedieval Gloucester to St Peter’sAbbey. The body of King Edward IIwas received here by the Abbotfor burial after the King’s murderat Berkeley Castle in 1327.

3. Shire Hall – Sir Robert Smirke 1816The central Ionic portico formed part of theoriginal Shire Hall building designed by thearchitect, Sir Robert Smirke, in 1816. The grandentrance is said to be styled on the templethat stands on the River Illissus in Greece.

4. The Fountain InnThe 17th-century buildingwith garden courtyard occupiesthe oldest known pub site inGloucester. Brewing wasfirst recorded here in theearly 14th century.

5. Bearland House Dignified townhousebuilt in the 1740sby William Jones,a distinguishedGloucester attorney.The ornamentalfaçade is complementedby a forecourt andfine wrought ironrailings and gate.

6. Bearland LodgeA very attractive early

18th-centuryhouse with an interestingpediment above the façade.

7. Ladybellegate HouseA fine town house built in1705. The Raikes familycame to live here in 1732and remained for manyyears. The interiorcontains some of theCity’s most ornamentalplasterwork.

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