Corsham in Focus Answers
1. Almshouses porch, Pound Pill: window on right/south side
2. Methuen Arms: left side of door in South Place/Lacock Road
3. 110 High Street (last door before Court wall)
4. St Bart’s: above door facing folly, north transept (Methuen Chapel)
5. 44 South Street (ex Richmond Tools)
6. Baptist Church, Priory Street: grave of John Thomas Dunsdon, by body’s right foot
7. Iron squeeze stile, the Drung or Lovers’ Walk (path from South Avenue to the High Street/Post Office Lane)
8. Corner of High Street and Martingate, above Parker’s Gallery
9. Mayo Memorial, High Street: over water trough at back
10. Between almshouses 3 and 4, Lacock Road (over door of number 3)
11. 9 Church Street, second floor, right window
12. The Pound: left side of gate at side (boys’) entrance from footpath beside cricket ground/bowling green
13. Corner of 30 Pickwick Road, top of Providence Lane
14. 45 Pickwick Road: left gate post
15. 43 Priory Street, over front door
16. St Bart’s churchyard (front): chest tomb of William Hulbert and family, to left of footpath leading to stile into park, inscription facing church
17. 71 High Street: front door
18. Wellerslea, 124 Priory Street, from gate
19. 77 High Street (Caxton House): left side of canopy over front door
20. 62 Pickwick Road: porch, old County Police Station (Dorkings Lodge)
21. Southleigh, 22 South Street: porch
22. The Rise, 31 South Street, date stone and finial
23. Hare & Hounds roof finial with sundial, seen from wall of Pickwick Manor
24. Ivy House, 2 Priory Street
25. 18 Pickwick Road (Pond Close)
26. 6 Bences Lane
27. 41a Pickwick/Bath Road
28. St Bart’s: handle of vestry door to right of main porch
29. Right side of gateway arch to Corsham Court, Church Square
30. Window in side of 18 Pickwick, seen from number 20 (Bramble Cottage)
31. Parkside, 36 High Street, front wall
32. Town Hall, over front entrance
33. Side of Previous, 54 High Street
34. Corner of Pickwick Road and Alexander Terrace, by S&K Autos
35. St Bart’s: figure to left above WWI memorial tablet
36. 62 Pickwick Road: right front wall
37. The Grove Coach House, Pickwick Road (Estate Office)
38. St Bart’s: on left above window in south wall, right of tower
39. Porch of 64 Pickwick Road (Selborne House)
40. Hungerford almshouses bell tower
41. 4 Bath Road/Pickwick (Old Parsonage), chimney to right when facing front door
42. Turret on the Pound, nearest Pound Pill end/auditorium
43. Old fire station, Spring Gardens/Priory Street (Heywood nursery)
44. Paul Street, side of 12 Pickwick Road (The White Lion)
45. Over front door of Ivy House, 2 Priory Street
46. Springfield Campus: opposite gate to swings/end of tennis court, above café, lower right of large blind window
47. Fencing on railway footbridge
48. Front wall of 55 High Street (over Garden Veterinary Group)
49. 42 Pickwick (Ostler’s House)
50. 4 Church Street: inner right side of hood over door
51. Shed to right of 17 Pickwick/Bath Road (Pickwick Cottage)
52. Alexander Terrace, first-floor window in brick building set back between number 23 and old laundrette
53. Right of Corsham Court green gates, High Street/Cross Keys Road
54. 12/14 Pickwick, between front doors
55. Gatepost, 1 South Street (Home Lea)
56. The Grove, Pickwick Road: above front door
57. Masonic Hall, Pickwick (‘This is not no 45’ on door)
58. Top right corner of window, the Old Shop, 20 Station Road
59. Grave of Lucy and William Ball, old Congregational Church graveyard between Grounded and Coop: last stone against wall backing on to car park
60. 12 Hastings Road
61. Rear of Gospel Hall, Hastings Road
62. Side wall of 3 South Place, overlooking garden of 4 South Place
63. Cheviot House, 76 High Street
64. 58 Pickwick Road
65. Memorial to Clara Jones, old Congregational Church graveyard between Coop and Grounded, middle of wall backing on to car park
66. St Bart’s: north wall, above door into nave
67. War memorial, east side, Lacock Road
68. Porch window, 29 Paul Street
69. Mansion House coach house, Pickwick Road
70. Top right of folly, from Church Street
71. Rear roof of Cheviot House, 76 High Street
72. 25 High Street: canopy over Post Office Lane entrance
73. Garden fence of Ash Villa, 5 Pound Pill
74. Left gate of Grove House, Pickwick Road
75. Gazebo in garden of Parkside, 36 High Street, from High Street car park
76. Old Tan Yard, view from Pound Pill
77. Side wall of 28 Station Road
78. Back of war memorial, Lacock Road
79. 16 Paul Street
80. Tablet on School Room, South Place
81. Scout hut, the Laggar
82. 90 High Street
83. Above Automattic, 17 Pickwick Road
84. Gable of 4 South Place, from South Avenue
85. Bellwood, 45 Pickwick (wall of Masonic Lodge)
86. St Bart’s: north wall, left of rose window
87. On door in wall between St Bart’s and Corsham Court
88. 9b and 9c Red Forge, Station Road
89. Fire station doors, Beechfield Road
90. Springfield Campus: wall overlooking swings, sixth light from right/fifth from left when facing building (to right of number 46)
91. High Street/Cross Keys Road, on wall near Corsham Court green gates
92. 79 High Street
93. 7/9 Alexander Terrace
94. Old Dairy, corner of Priory Street and Bath Road (Batley’s/Webb’s)
95. 8/10 Bath Road, Pickwick, under eaves
96. Mansion House, Pickwick Road, under number 69
97. Station Road Garage, 49 Station Road
98. The Pound: above main entrance
99. Methuen Arms barn, South Place
100. Ivy House, Priory Street, to right of front door
Congratulations to the following who recorded 'perfect' answers and whose names were entered into the draw for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes:
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Hilary Austin
Jackie Ball and Emma Langdale
Humphry Barnikel (1st prize)
Anne Chapman
Matthew Chapman
Eileen Cook
Gordon & Christine Coutts
Susan Curtis
Michael Derham (3rd prize)
Mike and Karen Hayter
Ruth Ross (2nd prize)
Isla Russell
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