This post forms part of an occasional series of contributions from guest authors. This building history by Dr Richard Brownfield was first published in the Chichester Society Newsletter and is here reproduced by permission.
Continue reading History of 1-9 Westgate: The Georgian Priory
How were our mature trees doing in 2015? A planning application had been made by the County Council to re-pollard the last remaining mature Horse Chestnut on the corner of Parklands Road and Westgate. This was no more than good maintenance, but the description in the application that this tree was now ‘over-mature’ and ‘in decline’ should perhaps have given us pause for thought. This was a really important tree on our street – as indeed is that whole patch of wild grass – and many residents continue to miss its former companions.
This brief article introduces a monthly series of four on the archaeology of Westgate. These four pages may be accessed via the underlined titles. The data has been adapted, with their permission, from the findings of an archaeological desk-based assessment prepared within a 500 metre radius of Chichester College by SLR Consulting Ltd in 2013. Hence the funny box on the maps.
As its name suggests, and like the “green hill far away”, St Bartholomew is “without a city wall”, in this case ‘without’ Chichester’s West Gate. The Church is designated by Historic England (formerly English Heritage) at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Continue reading St Bartholomew Without, Mount Lane (updated)
