In 1936 the lease owned by the Church Commissioners for the buildings at the top of Westgate – which included the Coach House and stable yard as well as what is now no. 5 – were let to the Chichester Theological College. This whole block, renamed Marriot House, was used for accommodation with eighteen students and 2 members of staff. There were 20 bedrooms, 4 WCs and 4 bathrooms. The main building for the College was No. 52 Westgate.
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Hidden Westgate Histories 10: Demolished properties Southside
The following properties to the south side of Westgate were demolished in 1963 to make way for the Avenue de Chartres and the Chichester inner ring road.
For information concerning the lost buildings to the north side of Westgate, please click here.
History of 52 Westgate
This large Georgian property was to become part of The Westgate Brewery.
The Humphreys
In 1780, William Humphrey (Snr) bought land in Scuttery Fields to build some malthouses. The brewery itself was installed on the adjoining site, where today’s no. 52 had stood as a dwelling house since about 1750: the date inscribed on the building is 1751.
History of 48 Westgate
This house was for many years the head brewer or brewery manager’s house and called Brewery House to this day. The following fascinating and very valuable account by a resident of her life in this property, is quoted with permission from the CLHS magazine ‘Chichester History’, no. 23, p41
THE SLOE FAIR ‘SQUIRTERS’ by Ruth Bagnall (née Randell)
History of 38 Westgate
More on the Holts. See the entries for nos. 16, 20 and 36 Westgate to complete the picture
As perviously described, John Ogburn Holt, who had lived at nos. 7&9 Westgate, acquired a number of properties on Westgate which he let, of which this was one. He signed a lease on 11th August 1896 for no 35 (old number) for £200, including:
History of 36 Westgate
This is the only house on the street that has carried the same number under both systems. It has always been no. 36.
Residents
The Holt family lived in this house for more than 70 years.
The first John Holt recorded in the censuses as living on Westgate, was in 1851, when he was at no. 36, next to the Waggon and Lamb PH.
History of 22 Westgate
History of 20 Westgate
John Ogburn Holt Snr. had been born in Chichester on 9th April 1846 at 36 Westgate.
By 1891 he was living at number 20 (then 44). In the house with him were his wife Elizabeth also 45, and his children John Ogburn Jnr. (9), twins William George and Emma (3), and Lizzie Helen Mary (1). By 1901 he had moved to 9+11 Westgate over the road.
Hidden Westgate Histories 9: Demolished properties Northside
As detailed in Hidden Histories no 8, properties 2-10 were demolished in 1963
No.8. James JEFFERIES was a private, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers. 29th Division when he was killed in action on 15.7.17. In 1911, he was living with his wife Sarah at no. 52 (old number, became 8, then demolished 1963) Westgate and employed as a Hopman at the Brewery. He is buried in the Bard Cottage Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium but memorialised on his wife Sarah’s gravestone, plot 15 in the churchyard of St James’ Church in Birdham. His name is on St Bartholomew’s war memorial.
Hidden Westgate Histories 5: The Westgate Cannon (updated)
As many residents will know, Westgate, along with St Pancras, was part of the Parliamentary encampment during the brief siege of Chichester by Colonel William Waller at Christmastide in December 1642, the first year of the Civil War. Christmas 2022 marked the 380th anniversary of this event.
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