Wimborne - Priests' House Museum
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Wimborne - Priests' House Museum
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 22 Mar 2015
A late C16 or early C17 hall house, altered and extended in the C18. Grade II* listed. From the early C19 it was in use as a stationers and an ironmongers shop. In 1962 the owner Miss Hilda Coles granted the house and gardens to the town as a museum. Its name of Priests' House appears to date from the middle of the C19 when it was believed then to have housed the priests provided for in the 1563 charter of Queen Elizabeth I. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=107073&mode=adv Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.79956
Longitude
-1.987603