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A walk around a rainy Sherborne in Dorset.

This was the Sunday that had heavy rain at the end of April 2012.

A few days after my visit The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the town as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits to towns and cities around the country.

Sherborne was the nearest town to our holiday cottage in Dorset.

Sherborne is an abbey town.

Church on Long Street in Sherborne.

Near the Chapterhouse

It was the School Room to South of Congregational Chapel.

Grade II listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-104027-school-room-to-south-of-congregational-c" rel="noreferrer nofollow">School Room to South of Congregational Chapel, Sherborne</a>

LONG STREET 1. 1625 (North-West Side) School Room to south of Congregational Chapel ST 6416 2/412 II GV 2. 1851 circa (site bought 1851). Rectangular block of one storey and basement. Tile gabled roof. Stone walls. Gothic detail. In west front from north to south, a gable with finial at north end has two 2-centred headed windows below and one window above. To south again a gabled porch with two-centred headed entrance; buttresses. To south of porch, upper floor has 5 rectangular windows of 2-lights with pierced quatrefoils or diamonds over; dripmoulds. Lower floor or basement has plain 2-light rectangular windows. Branch spirelet on roof. In front to Long Street, a tall ornate Gothic window of 4 cusped lights and flowing tracery rises up with gable. To right hand of it, a plain two-centred headed doorway accessible from another doorway in a high wall behind an external stair which rises diagonally across the front of the building to a porch on the upper level at left hand end. Small gate at entrance to stair has uprights with fleur-de-lys finials.

Premises occupied by Mr E J T Rogers, Congregational Chapel, Dwarf wall, railings and gates to Congregational Chapel, School room to south of Congregational Chapel, Cromwell, Belmont, Wistaria House and Dwarf walls and railings and Thorn Bank form a group.


Listing NGR: ST6402216589
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Source Long Street, Sherborne
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location50° 56′ 54.01″ N, 2° 30′ 38.9″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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