Doorway off Towngate, Sowerby
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Doorway off Towngate, Sowerby
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 27 Feb 2009
This has the inscription SL 1632 IL over the door in a frame shaped almost like a Christmas cracker, but the feature I was interested in was the decorative hoodmould terminal. There is a large variety of these on the 17C houses of Calderdale - see a chapter by David Cant in 'Aspects of Calderdale', Wharncliffe Books, 2002.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.705215
Longitude
-1.940884