Newbury,
Berkshire
Newtown Road Area
Click photos to enlarge.
Notes in italics from Berkshire by Nikolaus Pevsner
(1966)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
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On the E side of Newtown Road,
facing a green, Raymonds Buildings, or Lower Raymonds Buildings,
dated 1796, a long range of plain, classical almshouses. Twenty-five bays,
two storeys, pedimental gable in the centre. |
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Across the street ... Upper
Raymonds Buildings, 1826 and Gothic. Straight-headed two-light windows,
and in the raised middle a giant arch. |
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A high Early Victorian house
attached to which, with its E end on Newtown Road, is the Litten
Chapel, a small Perp chapel with two small genuine Perp windows and an
original roof. The E end is cut off by the road. ... |
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In Argyle Road St
Bartholomew's Hospital, a U-shaped brick building of two storeys with a
hipped roof. It dates from 1618, but the windows have mullion and transom
crosses, and this looks later C17 and could go with the date 1698 on the
cupola. |
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In Bartholomew Street the Eight
Bells, C16, one-storeyed, with three gables. Gothic window details. |
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Market
Place and Wharf Street West
Mills
London Road, Oxford
Street and nearby
St Nicolas Church
St John's Church |
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Map
of Newbury |
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