Description

1. CHURCH STREET 5411 (North Side)

No 8 (Orpin's House) ST 8260 2/18 18.4.52.

II* GV

2. Late C17. Ashlar, stone-tiled roof, rusticated quoins. 2 storeys and attics in 2 gables. 3 windows 2-light casements with stone mullions and architrave surrounds, windows leaded. Two small square window openings, glazed with bottle glass, between centre window and side windows on lst floor. Moulded string at first floor level and moulded cornice at attic floor level. Stone door surround with Tuscan pilasters, architrave, frieze with triglyphs and guttae, and flat cornice. Semi-circular-headed doorway with keystone and imposts. Square ashlar stacks at gable ends. In this house lived Edward Orpin, for 40 years Parish Clerk of Bradford-on-Avon (died 1781). He was the original of Gainsborough's painting "The Parish Clerk" in the National Gallery.

All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.

Listing NGR: ST8236960883

External Links

• Wikidata Q17543703

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)