Category: About Warminster: Church Street

Conveyance And Site Plan Of The Minster Hall At Church Street, Warminster

A Conveyance, with site plan, from the incumbent to the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Finance in trust for the P.C.C. of the site of the parochial Minster Hall in Church Street, Warminster, can be found in the archives at the Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 2QN. It is dated 1922. The description states: In 1930 the Hall was sold to Messrs. John Hall & Co., of Warminster, and removed from the site. Included, constitution for the management of the Hall. The reference number is PR/Warminster, St. Denys with St. Lawrence/2144/102..

The Sale Of Alma Cottage And Winfrid Lodge

Friday 5th September 1919

Alma Cottage and Winfrid Lodge were included among the properties sold by the Longleat Estate in September 1919 (about 100 houses, cottages, shops, pubs, farms and smallholdings – described as the largest property sale ever held in Warminster).

The sale catalogue described them as follows:

“Lot 14.
Alma Cottage and Winfrid Lodge,
Church Street, Warminster.

Alma Cottage with shady garden at side, contains glass covered-in Verandah, Dining and Drawing Rooms, 3 Bedrooms, w.c., Kitchen. Larder, Washhouse with copper, and Coal House, and is let to Mrs. B.S. Barnes on quarterly tenancy at £15 per annum.

Winfrid Lodge, brick built and tiled, with Garden at rear, with side entrance, contains Dining Room, 14ft. x 14ft.; Drawing Room, 19ft. x 15ft. 6in.; Kitchen, Scullery, and Larder, 5 bedrooms, Attic, Bathroom (h. and c.) with lavatory basin, w.c., good Cupboards. Now let to Mr. A.W. Hall on a quarterly tenancy at the annual rental of £23.

Water and Gas. The Greenhouse is a Tenant’s fixture. Land Tax, 18s. 6d.”

The sale of the Longleat properties was spread over two days, Friday 5th September and Saturday 6th September, at the Town Hall. The auctioneer was David Waddington, and Messrs. Ponting & Marshall were solicitors for the vendor, the Marquess of Bath, K.G.

Alma Cottage and Winfrid Lodge were sold on the first day, to Mr. A.W. Hall (the tenant of Winfrid Lodge), for £700.

Messrs. R. Butcher & Son, 1900

The Pictorial Record, Volume III, no. 26. September 1900, included:

Among the most important of local concerns is the large building and contracting business of Messrs. R. Butcher & Son, which dates back some seventy years. A great uncle of the present proprietor, who carried on the trade of a plasterer only, was the founder of the concern, but in the hands of his successor, Mr. James Grant, it became a general decorating business. Then the present owner’s father became proprietor, and since his decease, building, joinery, masonry and other departments have been added. Mr. Butcher also trades extensively as a line burner and lime merchant, renting the quarries on the Downs near the town, where the lime burning has been carried on for generations. The product is a very superior one, and is in demand practically in every centre of the building trade in England, Mr. Butcher’s enterprise being mainly responsible for this, he having made what was previously a local trade into one of large outside connections.

The general building and storage yards are at 14 Church Street and 2 Silver Street, there being at both places a large and comprehensive stock of builders’ and contractors’ materials. There are good joinery shops, stores for painters’ and decorators’ materials and impedimenta, masons’ sheds, glaziers’ shop, stables and other indispensable adjuncts of an all-round business.

Scaffolding, flag stones and stone rough or wrought, can be supplied in any quantity, as well as timber, lime, cement, and the materials of the building trades generally.

The firm contract for the erection and equipment of buildings, and have a large general jobbing business. As paper hangers and decorators, too, they hold a leading place, and are equally at home in plain and elaborate work of this class. Estimates in this or other departments are furnished free, and work can always be put in hand and finished promptly. Mr. Butcher personally superintends everything, and being himself a thoroughly practical man, bred to the business, this is a guarantee of satisfaction to his clients.

The Orphanage Of Pity, Warminster

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, April 1868:

The Orphanage Of Pity, which was opened on the 1st of last November, now contains eight fatherless and motherless girls. They are supported entirely by voluntary unasked donations of those who feel with the Vicar that children circumstanced as they are should not be left only to the workhouse. The little house in Church Street was partly furnished before it was opened, but furnished only as the offerings were given for the purpose, nor throughout has anything been bought until the money has been given that is to pay for it. Hitherto we have to thank God. He has sent always sufficient for the immediate wants. When the quarterly rent-day arrived the rent was ready. Many kind friends have arisen whose hearts He has stirred up to help. In addition to money gifts there have been most useful and acceptable presents in kind – clothing, coals, wood, straw, flour, cheese, joints of meat, pies, puddings and potatoes, besides articles of furniture. Any, the smallest offerings, may be sent to the Vicarage for the orphans.

Bequests Left By Mr. Joseph Pocock

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, No.10, Vol.4., October 1867:

The following bequests have been left by our respected townsman Mr. Joseph Pocock, of Church Street, who died at the advanced age of ninety-three, to various charitable institutions of the town and neighbourhood: The Salisbury Infirmary £100; Bath United Hospital £100; Salisbury Church Building Society £100; Wilts Friendly Society £200; Warminster National Schools £30; Warminster Aged Poor Society £50; Warminster Blanket Lending Society £50.

The National School At Church Street In The 1838 Survey Of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster

1838 Survey of Warminster:
Number: 1117
New reference number: 1112
Page: 34
Address: Church Street.
Property details: School House (National).
State: –
Owner: Marquess of Bath.
Lessee: National School (Trustees).
Occupier: William Bayce.

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