Market Lavington buildings [2]
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Market Lavington buildings [2]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 19 May 2020
The Studio, number 73 High Street, was originally built in 1716 as a Quaker (Friends) meeting house. Built in brick with a greensand gable to the road. The building was taken over by the Congregational church in 1809 and remained in use by them as a Sunday school after the new church was built in 1892. Now used as a studio there remains a small graveyard alongside the building. Market Lavington lies at the foot of the north western scarp slope of Salisbury Plain, about 5 miles south of Devizes. There is evidence of continuous occupation of the village since the Iron Age and maybe, near continuous occupation since late Neolithic times. The village developed around the cross roads of an east-west road (now the B3098) and a north-south road which ran from Devizes to Salisbury – later closed. Once considered a town, a market charter was granted in 1254.
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