St. Augustine - School & Chapel
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St. Augustine - School & Chapel
Image: © John C Taken: 17 Dec 2008
This school and chapel was built at the request of Mary Brunel, wife of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It was to provide a school and chapel for the workers and children on Brunel's Watcombe Park estate. The piece of land known as Barn Close was purchased for £250, and it was intended to include workers' cottages as well as the school and chapel. Later it served the local population as a chapel. It closed in 1928 and became two separate private dwellings. The closing was due to the establishing of St. Martin's, Barton, as a mission church.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.494629
Longitude
-3.536824