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Filed under Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 14th 2020
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Cheap Street Methodist Church – Sherbourne
In 1821 Mr William Dingley arrived in Sherborne from Launceston Cornwall.
He began worshipping in the Congregational Church in Long Street, but finding it too full and difficult to obtain a seat he decided to erect his own Wesleyan Chapel.
So in 1824 he purchased land and a large outhouse in Cheap Street and converted it into [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 5th 2019
Filed under Heritage, Sherborne 2019
The Conduit – Sherbourne
The Conduit at the bottom of Sherborne’s South Street.
The hexagonal 16th-century structure originally stood in the north cloisters of the abbey, where it was used for washing by the monks.
It was moved to this site after Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 4th 2019
