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Latitude: 52.6638 / 52°39'49"N
Longitude: 0.1606 / 0°9'38"E
OS Eastings: 546211
OS Northings: 309531
OS Grid: TF462095
Mapcode National: GBR L1Q.ZB6
Mapcode Global: WHJPH.F9PQ
Plus Code: 9F42M576+G6
Entry Name: 3, the Crescent
Listing Date: 31 October 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1228706
English Heritage Legacy ID: 48225
ID on this website: 101228706
Location: Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire, PE13
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland
Civil Parish: Wisbech
Built-Up Area: Wisbech
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Wisbech St Peter and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Ely
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WISBECH THE CRESCENT
TF 4609
6/27 No. 3
GV II
Terrace house built c.1793 in two terraces linked by pair of
houses sharing common pedimented facade dated 1808 and the
Weslyan Chapel, 1803 built by Joseph Medworth (b.1752, d.1827),
as part of the planned circus of the Castle Estate. Local brown
brick; slate roof and side stack. Three storeys and basement;
two 'bays'. Stone coped parapet with painted stone bands at
first and second floor. Two second floor recessed,
twelved-paned hung sash windows in cambered gauged red brick
arches with stone cills. Two similar, but larger first floor
and one ground floor windows. Two stone steps to entrance left
of centre with six-panelled door and plain fanlight in double
recessed, red gauged brick arch. Interior has a good
open-string staircase. Plaque set in boundary wall to the
memory of 'George York ... Deacon of the Christian Society
assembling in this place, died April 14 1815'.
NMR (C. Godfrey, Wisbech photographic collection), 1982.
Colvin, p,386, 1954.
VCR Cambs, p.242.
G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977.
Walker and Craddock, History of Wisbech, p.278, 1849.
Watson, prints, History of Wisbech, 1827.
Listing NGR: TF4621109531
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