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17-19 High Street
- High Street Angier Almshouses - Reading Road Calleva House - High Street Castle Priory - Thames Street Corn Exchange - Market Place Fish Street Foundry - 36 St Mary's
Street and Mill Lane Flint House (Wallingford
Museum) - High Street St John's Cottage and St John's House - St John's Road St Lucian's - St Lucian's Lane Tudor houses in the High Street, Calleva House
and St Lucian's Stone Hall - High Street Wallingford Town Hall - Market
square Wallingford Town Hall and Church of St. Mary-the-More, by Charles G. Harper from Thames Valley Villages (1910) Wilder's New Foundry - Goldsmiths'
Lane This site Copyright of Wallingford History Gateway Productions 2005
Tudor buildings - diagonally opposite Avanti - probably built around 1530,
but No 18 has a fine vaulted cellar from the 14th
century.
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Founded by John and Mary Angier in 1681,
and further endowed by Francis Bunting in 1886, and still in use.
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Home to William
Hucks, MP from 1714-40, and also Richard Lovegrove, who founded the Baptist
Church in the back garden. It is built of Nettlebed brick, and briefly
served as a school. It is now Summer Davis Antiques.
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Home to Justice
William Blackstone, who had Thames Street rerouted to allow the
construction. It was later home to artist James
Hayllar and his daughters, who were also artists. Later still, it was owned
by the National Union of Railwaymen, briefly a hotel, and was recently home to
the Spastics Society.
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Erected in 1856
– the iron arches were cast by Wilder’s
- it ran a weekly corn market. The building operated as a grain exchange until
the First World War. It was occasionally used as a cinema, boxing arena, auction
room and theatre after that. After the Second World War it was used as a food
office, and also an unemployment office and for the Social Security Ministry.
The derelict building was purchased by the Sinodun Players in 1975 and converted
into a modern theatre and cinema.
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This was the first of Wilder's foundries in Walingford. The building used to
belong to the Corporation of Wallingford, and William Hilliard leased it from
them, and then let it to Leonard Wilder. His son Richard
Wilder later bought the property and then the area behind. The Maharajah's
Well elephant and the roof trusses of the Corn Exchange were cast here. The
foundry shop is now Louise Claire Millinery, while the forge is now a private
house. The shop has a weather vane on the roof, and a street sign still bearing
the Fish Street address.
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This is has a 17th
century flinted exterior, with a timber-framed structure, possibly of late 15th
century, and is believed to have been owned by Richard Norreys.
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Parts of a large building from the early 16th
century building. St John's Cottage has a 19th
century exterior.
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This early 16th
century private house (home to the Wilder family), previously known as Wharf
House, was described by architecture critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the most
interesting house in Wallingford". It has tall chimneys and mulleined
windows. It was built during the reign of Henry VIII. It was briefly used as a
school (Lower
Wharf Academy).
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This private house was built for Edward
Wells, brewer, who later became an MP. Wallingford mayor Thomas Greenwood is
thought to have refronted the 18th century building around 1820.
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This purpose-built foundry, built in 1869
for Richard
Wilder's son, also Richard Wilder, supplemented the original Fish Street
Foundry. It is now a series of flats.