user:Ykraps

|18 April 2010

|The Constable's House is a domestic Norman dwelling which was built within the original castle bailey in 1160, earlier than the existing stone keep. Much of the stonework survives, including a rare example of a Norman Chimney (one of only five in the country). The ground floor which has four slit windows was used as a storeroom. The upper floor accessed by steps outside and an internal staircase contained the main hall. As well as the chimney, another notable feature is the privy which extends out over the mill stream.{{cite web |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/dorset/clhs/page11.phtml|title=This is Dorset Communigate|author=David Eels|date=|work=Christchurch Castle|publisher=Christchurch Local History Society|accessdate=12 August 2010}} DoE Reference: 1A/18{{rp|3}}

Castle Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1605092706

Christchurch Castle

|19 April 2010

|The castle ruins are of a motte and bailey construction and are of Norman origin or possibly even Saxon. It has been suggested that there may have been a castle on this spot as early as 924 AD when; after Aethelwold captured the town ramparts in 901 AD, Edward the Elder decided to fortify the town further with a wooden fort on a motte.{{rp|87}} After the Norman conquest (1066) the castle's defences were again strengthened with the addition of a ditch and bailey surrounded by a wooden palisade. The wooden fort was replaced; at first with another wooden structure and then in 1300, with a stone keep.{{rp|89}} Today the bailey is home to a bowling green and gardens, and the ditch has been filled but parts of the keep and the constable's house still stand. DoE Reference: 1A/17{{rp|2}}

Castle Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1596892661

Listed buildings in Christchurch, Dorset

Bailey Bridge

|21 May 2010

|Preserved piece of a Bailey Bridge, displayed near the site of Christchurch barracks where it was both invented and manufactured.

Bailey Bridge roundabout, Barrack Road.

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Hart's factory

|21 May 2010

|Initially a factory for the construction of fusee chains, now flats. The old Fusee factory in Bargates.{{rp|5}} Was built in 1845 to an advanced design with particularly large windows on either side. 74 feet long but only 18 feet wide, it allowed the maximum amount of natural light to enter for the intricate assembly work that was carried out within.{{rp|197}}{{rp|82}}The two-storey building is constructed from red brick with grey headers and bears a slate roof. DoE ref 1/66 1A/66.{{rp|5}}

Listed buildings in Christchurch, Dorset

Bargates.

Grid Reference: SZ1560692982

|Christchurch, Dorset,

History of Christchurch, Dorset

The Red House Museum

|22 May 2010

|The second of the town's museums is The Red House Museum built in 1764 as the town workhouse. Many of the women and children that worked in the towns' fusee factories came from here.{{rp|220, 224}} It contains a variety of exhibitions pertaining to local history, costume, geology, natural history and archaeology. In addition there are a number of temporary exhibitions that change every few weeks. The grounds contain both formal and informal gardens. DoE Reference: 1A/11.{{rp|113}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dorsetforyou.com/323095 |title=Dorset For You / Red House Museum|publisher=Dorset County Council|accessdate=19 September 2010}} The boundary walls are grade II listed.{{rp|111}}

Quay Road

Grid Reference: SZ1588292570

History of Christchurch, Dorset

Lloyds Bank

|25 May 2010

|The House of Ellis Coffin, renowned 18th century smuggler who left it to the townsfolk. Now Lloyds Bank.

Castle Street

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Guardhouse

|26 May 2010

|The old guard house, part of what was once Christchurch barracks but has been a housing estate since 1996. Now a hairdressers.

Dragoon Way

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Stable block

|26 May 2010

|The old stable block at the former Christchurch Barracks, now a block of flats on a housing estate.

Dragoon Way

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Tank traps

|30 May 2010

|Part of the WWII anti-tank defences in and around Christchurch. Part of a section that ran the length of the railway line between the River Stour and the River Avon. Now a scheduled ancient monument.

Avon Trading Park, Fairmile

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Smuggler's cache

|6 July 2010

|A smugglers' cache built between the roofs of The Ship Inn public house and the Old Toll House. Only visible from the alley opposite.

High Street

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|Currently unused

Church Hatch

|6 July 2010

|Church House in Christchurch, Dorset is a Georgian residence once home to the Major-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne renowned soldier and 3 times private secretary to the Viceroy of India. It was saved from demolition in 1929 by public appeal. DoE Reference: 1A/7{{rp|43}}{{cite book |title=Images of England: Christchurch |last=Newman |first=Sue|year=1998|publisher=Tempus Publishing Limited|location=The Mill, Brimscombe Port, Stroud, Glos. |isbn=0-7524-1050-4|page= |pages= }}{{rp|18}} Another former resident was the taphephobic Mrs Perkins whose grade II listed mausoleum can be found in Priory Gardens at the rear of the property.{{rp|47}}{{cite book |title=Christchurch a Pictorial History |last=Taylor |first=Christine |year=1994 |publisher=Phillimore and Co. Ltd |location= Shopwyke Manor Barn, Chichester, Sussex|isbn=0-85033-901-4 |page= plate no. 85 |url= |accessdate=23 July 2010}} The railings, gate and walls are also grade II* listed.{{rp|45}}

Church Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1596892628

Town Hall

|10 July 2010

|The Mayor's Parlour. Was originally built as the market hall in 1745 at the junction of Castle Street, Church Street and the High Street; it was moved to its present position in 1849. Later it was enclosed and extended, and used as the town hall until the civic offices were built, in Bridge Street, in the mid-1970s. It was partly demolished and restored to its former condition circa 1982 when Saxon Square was built. The Celtic cross in the square marks the back of the building before its demolition. DoE Reference: 1A/98{{cite book|last=Hodges|first=Michael A.|title=Christchurch: The Golden Years|year=2003|publisher=Dorset Books|isbn=978-1-871164-38-1|pages=}}{{rp|13, 17, 23, 24}}{{rp|53}}

High Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1579092835

Listed buildings in Christchurch, Dorset

Place Mill Bridge.

|11 July 2010

|This mediaeval bridge crosses the mill stream just before Place Mill, an Anglo-Saxon watermill on the Town Quay. Officially it has no name but is often referred to as the Place Mill Bridge. The oldest part of the bridge, the arches, date back to Saxon times. DoE Reference: 1A/16. Further upstream, by the town, is another mediaeval bridge which has a grade I listing.{{rp|107}}

Town Quay.

Grid Reference: SZ1601892403

Place Mill

|11 July 2010

|Place Mill is an Anglo-Saxon watermill mentioned in the Domesday book.{{cite book |editor1-first=Thomas |editor1-last=Hinde |editor1-link= |others= |title=The Domesday Book (England's Heritage, Then and Now) |publisher=Coombe Books |location=Godalming, Surrey |language= |isbn=1-85833-440-3 |page=125 |year=1996 }} The mill stopped working in 1908 and stood derelict until it was restored in 1981. "It is remarkable, in that it takes water from one river and spills it into a second river".{{rp|4}} A mill-stream is supplied from the River Avon, near to the Electricity Museum behind Bargates, and flows for nearly half a mile to the mill between the Avon and the Priory grounds, before joining the River Stour at the Town Quay. DoE Reference: 1A/15{{rp|111}}Distance of mill stream flow taken from Ordnance Survey map of Christchurch, which also shows the outflow into the Stour.

Town Quay.

Grid Reference: SZ1600392392

History of Christchurch, Dorset

Christchurch Hospital

|21 July 2010

|Now a hospital but initially built as a replacement workhouse for the Red House in Quay Road.

Fairmile

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|Christchurch Hospital

Christchurch Hospital

|21 July 2010

|Side elevation and entrance to Christchurch Hospital

Fairmile

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|Christchurch Hospital

Bournemouth Union workhouse

|21 July 2010

|The second town workhouse in Christchurch, Dorset. Built in 1881 to replace the original workhouse in Quay Road. Later part of Christchurch Hospital and eventually converted to flats in 1995.

Fairmile

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Perkins Mausoleum

|25 July 2010

|A fear of being buried alive led the owner of this mausoleum to request that her body not be interred, nor her coffin lid screwed down, and that it should be placed at the entrance to the priory's school so that the pupils would hear if she revived. When her husband died 20 years later in 1803, her body was removed, the structure sold, and re-erected in Priory Gardens.{{cite web|url=http://www.panoramicearth.com/3820/Christchurch/Perkins_Mausoleum_and_Priory_Gardens|title=Perkins' mausoleum and Priory gardens|page=|date=2005–2010|work= |publisher=Panoramic Earth|accessdate=20 August 2010}} DoE Reference: 1A/152{{rp|47}}

Priory Gardens.

Grid Reference: SZ1607492614

Bailey Bridge

|16 August 2010

|A Bailey Bridge spanning the River Stour at what was once the site of the Experimental Bridging Company of the Royal Engineers in Christchurch, Dorset. It was while working here that Sir Donald Bailey invented it and the first prototypes were designed and built.

River Stour.

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Officers' Mess

|16 August 2010

|Originally the officer's mess at Christchurch Barracks, Dorset. Built around 1800, it was converted into flats in 1997.

Dragoon Way

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Monday Market

|23 September 2010

|View of along Christchurch High Street on market day (Mondays)

High Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1579092835

Ye Olde Eight Bells

|7 October 2010

|Ye Olde Eight Bells is now a gift shop but once was a alehouse frequented by smugglers and central to a number of local legends. A date above the door suggests that the building dates back to 1450 AD. It was here that a young woman foiled a revenue search by sitting with a tub of brandy beneath her skirts, while she nursed a baby. It was also reported that there was a tunnel from the basement leading to the Ship in Distress at Stanpit, over a mile away.{{cite book |title=Christchurch a Pictorial History |last=Taylor |first=Christine |year=1994 |publisher=Phillimore and Co. Ltd |location= Shopwyke Manor Barn, Chichester, Sussex|isbn=0-85033-901-4 |page= plate no.83 |url= |accessdate=2010-09-17}} The name comes from the Priory peal which at the time was seven bells (it is now twelve). It closed as a public house in 1907.{{rp|12}} Listed as No.16 Church Street. DoE Reference: 1A/8{{rp|49}}

Church Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1594892606

The Old Power Station

|7 October 2010

|Built in 1903 to power the town's trams, the power station in Bargates is one of the most complete, early power stations to have survived in England. It was constructed in the late Victorian Italianate style from red brick with stone and terracotta dressings.{{rp|3}} Now a Museum of Electricity, it houses a variety of educational exhibits and old machinery, including a tram.{{rp|82–83}} It is one of two museums in the town. DoE ref 491644

Bargates.

Grid Reference: SZ1570393159

The Town Bridge

|8 October 2010

|This 15th-century ashlar bridge is sometimes referred to as Quartley's Bridge after Dr. Quartley whose house sits on a narrow strip of land between the Little Avon and the millstream. Dr. Quartley is associated with the town's smuggling folklore. The bridge crosses the narrower of the two branches of the Avon on what was, before the bypass was constructed, the only easterly route out of the town and the only crossing point below Sopley. It has five low, round headed arches with cutwaters between and parapet above. DoE Reference: 1A/19{{rp|1}}

Castle Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1604092735

The Mews Bridge

|8 October 2010

|Listed as the western part of the Town Bridge but separated by a narrow strip of land, this bridge is one of two mediaeval bridges that cross the mill stream. Built at the same time as the Town Bridge from the same materials, it has two 2 arches with a cutwater between and parapets. It has no documented name but is often referred to as the Mews bridge or sometimes also as Quartley's bridge. DoE Reference: 1A/19{{rp|1}}

Castle Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1604092735

Tyneham House

|13 October 2010

|Tyneham House is a two-storey, 18th-century stuccoed building with brick eaves and cornice. The house has a centre portion of three windows and advanced side wings with hipped roofs. The Doric porch in the centre has a three-light sash window to each side. There is a stone triglyph frieze and cornice over these windows and the door. It is supposed that the name of the house is a misspelling of the town's ancient name of Twynham, although there is a village of the same name in Dorset. DoE Reference: 1A/29{{rp|11}}

Bridge Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1615292801

The King's Arms Hotel

|13 October 2010

|The Kings Arms Hotel is a building in two parts. The western section was built in the 18th century as Humby's, on the site of a 17th-century inn of the same name.{{rp|19}} It housed the South Hants Militia until the barracks were built in 1794.{{rp|30}} This section, in painted brick, has a steeply pitched, slate roof with moulded eaves and cornice. Some of the sash windows have boxed frames and 19th-century glazing. The eastern section was built around 1800 with a brick facade with stucco plinth and a hipped bellcast slate roof, again with moulded wood eaves cornice. In the centre of the first floor are 3 lights with a stone pediment above, and with flanking pilasters. An iron balcony extends along the width of the first floor. The wide porch below has Tuscan columns and the door is flanked by narrow lights with a wide fanlight above. DoE ref 1A/26.{{rp|30}}

Castle Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1597392769

HSBC Bank

|13 October 2010

|Listed as No.15 (Midland Bank), as it then was, the HSBC bank in the High Street is an Edwardian Baroque building in white stone with a balustraded parapet to a roof which isn't visible from ground level. The rounded south eastern corner terminates in a dome, the base of which has low relief carving. It has 3 round arched windows on a plinth which are separated by engaged Tuscan pillars. The entrance below the dome has a draped blank plaque with swags above door and the doorway has dentil cornice, segmental canopy and stone architrave. DoE ref 1A/75.{{rp|56}}

High Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1573592839

The Congregational Church

|13 October 2010

|Built on the site of an earlier Congregational church which dated from 1660, this church in Millhams Street was built in 1866 to a Kemp-Welch and Pinder design. Constructed from buff brick with stone dressings and a roof of patterned, two tone slates; the sizable church and attached Sunday school buildings are mainly Gothic in appearance but with a mixture of Romanesque and Cinquecento detail. The tall, slender, steeple has a splayed pyramid spire with a weather vane finial. Below this is a clock, then recessed belfry with triple round-arched windows, 3 portholes with 'quasi-tiled' roof of stone to cornice, a two light Cinquecento window and a round-arched doorway. The west front has a double arched entrance in a low gabled porch constructed from pink stone with colonnettes, foliage capitals and vermiculated keystones. Above is a 4-light round-arched window with tracery of roundels (1 cusped) and Lombard frieze to gable. The 2 storey side elevations have lower windows with shouldered flat-arched lights under segmental relieving arch and foliage tympanum. The upper windows are 2-light Cinquecento style under cross gables. The attached Sunday schools have a similar elevation and roof. It is now a United Reformed Church. DoE Reference: 1A/56.{{rp|81}} The associated graveyards on either side of the street are also grade II listed. DoE Reference: 1A/57

Millhams Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1585392832

Quartley's House

|13 October 2010

|Quartley's is an early-19th-century, 3-storey, private residence with a slate roof with red ridge tiles and dormer. The restored, stucco facade has 5 sash windows with glazing bars and a 6-panelled double door with panelled reveals and a flat canopy on brackets. It is approached by a flight of railed steps and has iron area railings along the street boundary. DoE ref 1A/154.{{rp|27}}

Bridge Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1604792750

Burton Hall

|20 October 2010

|Burton Hall was built around 1750 as a 3-storey, private residence but has since been converted into flats. It is a fine example of a grand house from the period and has a stylish facade constructed from brick but with stone dressings. The centre breaks slightly forward and has pediment. Plain parapet and modillion cornice, rusticated quoins and brick stacks. Above the doorway is a pedimented window with a stone balustrade below and flanked by smaller windows. The centre, second-floor window has moulded stone architrave. There is a former orangery at the north end with 5 round arched windows. The interior still retains it large staircase, moulded architrave, six-panelled doors and 18th-century fireplaces. DoE Reference: 9/364{{rp|132}}

|Burton,

Salisbury Road.

Grid Reference: SZ1654595192

No. 3 Bridge Street (Prezzo)

|25 October 2010

|Built in the early 19th century, this two-storey residence and shop front has a painted brick facade with eaves, cornice and slate roof. Two of the five windows on the first floor are bricked (as a way of avoiding paying the 1766 window tax), dating the building to pre 1851. The shop front on the ground floor has two bowed shop windows with glazing bars, flanking a centre double doorway with a wide, flat cornice overall. There is an additional round arched doorway with a fanlight to east of shop. DoE Reference: 1A/28{{rp|20}}

Bridge Street.

Grid Reference: SZ1611692791

The Cemetery Lodge

|4 November 2010

|Designed by renowned architect Benjamin Ferrey, this 19th-century lodge at Jumpers' Cemetery is built in the form of a gatehouse from stone with ashlar dressings. The arched, off centre, gabled entrance crosses the road into cemetery. It is of an asymmetrical design of 1 and 1{{fraction|1|2}} storeys with a tiled roof. The entrance has a ground floor window with relieving arch above and gabled dormer. DoE Reference: 4/224.{{rp|66}} Benjamin Ferrey was born and lived in the town.{{cite web |url=http://www.communigate.co.uk/dorset/clhs/page13.phtml|title=This is Dorset Communigate|author=Fraser Donachie|date=|work=Benjamin Ferrey|publisher=Christchurch Local History Society|accessdate=12 August 2010}}

Jumpers Road.

Grid Reference: SZ1462293703

The Two Chapels

|4 November 2010

|Another of Ferrey's designs, the two chapels at Jumpers' Cemetery form a group with the lodge. Built at the same time from stone with tiled roofs, they face each other across the roadway. Lacking towers, each has a bellcotte. Often referred to as the twin chapels, although similar, there are differences, as the accompanying picture demonstrates. DoE Reference: 4/243.{{rp|66}}

Jumpers Road.

Grid Reference: SZ1459893720

Sandhills

|11 November 2010

|Sandhills was the holiday home of Sir George Rose, Member of Parliament and close friend and advisor to the prime minister William Pitt. It was built on the beach at Mudeford and Sir George's other great friend, King George III stayed there on a number of occasions, helping to promote Christchurch as a tourist destination.{{rp|116}} Sandhills, Mudeford was also home to George Rose's two sons: Sir George Henry Rose, politician and diplomat, and William Rose, poet.{{cite book |title=Christchurch Harbour |last=Powell |first=Mike |year=1995 |publisher=Natula Publications |location=Briar Park Business Centre, Stour Rd, Christchurch |isbn=1-897887-07-8 |page= |pages=|accessdate=23 July 2010}}{{rp|52}} Field Marshal Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn, GCB, GCSI, son of George Henry Rose also spent time living at the family home.{{rp|91}}{{rp|46,47}} Sandhills is now a holiday park with static caravans in the grounds but the house still remains although it has been converted to flats. DoE Reference: 6/41

|Mudeford,

Bure Lane.

Grid Reference: SZ1855391973

Gundimore

|11 November 2010

|Gundimore is a house near Avon Beach built in 1796 for the poet William Rose. Visitors to the house included fellow poets Coleridge and Southey. Sir Walter Scott stayed there while writing his epic poem Marmion. The building is of the most unusual design, said to have been built in the shape of a Turkish tent, complete with gilt Arabic inscriptions to remind the original owner of his travels in the east. It consisted of a centre section and 2 wings. The centre section has 5 windows with a large curved centre bay with a shallow pitched, conical roof. At the south west corner of this bay is a round, 2 storey turret, shaped like a squat house with the upper storey almost completely glazed. The north eastern wing is now Scott's Cottage. Rose is believed to have designed at least part of the house himself.{{cite web|url=http://www.bournemouthcoastpath.org.uk/2006/09/12/historic-mudeford-beach-paintings-found/|title=Exploring the Bournemouth Coastal Path|page=|year=2006|work= |publisher=Leigh Hatts|accessdate=3 October 2010}} DoE Reference: 3/42.{{rp|84}}

|Mudeford,

Bure Lane.

Grid Reference: SZ1872392070

Hart's Factory

|7 December 2010

|Side elevation of Hart's factory. Once a fusee factory now a dwelling, the side elevation shows the extent of the glazing which gave plenty of natural light for the intricate work carried out within.

Bargates.

Grid Reference: SZ1560692982

|Christchurch, Dorset,

Finsbury Barracks

|Honourable Artillery Company

|2 November 2012

|Built in 1857 as the headquarters of the Royal London Militia. Designed by the architect Joseph Jennings.

|London

City Road

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List of museums in London

Honourable Artillery Company Museum

St Catherine's Hill Quarry

|11 March 2014

|Sandstone formation at the bottom of one of the sand quarries on St Catherine's Hill in Dorset

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Christchurch from St Catherine's Hill

|16 March 2014

|View across the town of Christchurch, Dorset from nearby St Catherine's Hill. The church in the centre is the Christchurch Priory.

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Christchurch Town Common

|16 March 2014

|View across the eastern slopes of St Catherine's Hill and the Town Common, a SSSI and home to all of Britain's reptile species.

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The Isle of Wight seen from St Catherine's Hill

|16 March 2014

|View of the Isle of Wight and the Solent from St Catherine's Hill in Dorset.

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Western slopes of St Catherine's Hill

|21 March 2014

|Western slopes of St Catherine's Hill in Dorset dominated by pines and rhodedendron.

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St Catherine's Hill

|22 March 2014

|St Catherine's Hill in Dorset seen from the Avon Valley.

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Warren Hill