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Verulam Road, ST. ALBANS, AL3 4DN

In the St Albans Conservation Area, these neat Victorian terraced houses are in a cul-de-sac with pollarded trees.

Romans specialise in sports and prestige used cars. Ordnance Survey flush bracket number 1276 (a special type of bench mark) can just be seen halfway up the wall to the side of the vertical seam in the brickwork of the boundary wall.

Row of houses in Verulam Road. The furthest one, no 60, is marked on the 1879-80 1:500 OS Plan as a Nurses' Home; the terrace (nos 52 - 58) is later, first appearing on the 1889 1:10:560 map and the house on the right (nos 50/50a) would appear to have been built at the same time as the former Christ Church was converted to offices in 1974.

A flush bracket is a special type of bench mark installed by the Ordnance Survey. This one, number 1276, was originally fixed into the wall of a building in about 1914 as part of a levelling line from Hemel Hempstead to Buntingford. At some stage, presumably during building alterations, it has been relocated into a new wall and hence probably slightly moved from its original position.

Now converted into offices

Started in 1850, Christ Church was designed by Charles Parker in an Italianate style. It was funded by Alexander Raphael MP, who intended it to be a Roman Catholic Church, to be known as St Raphael's, although wasn't completed by the time of his death. The site was sold by his executors to Mrs Isabella Worley of New Barnes (now Sopwell House), who paid for its completion and who had it adopted by the Church of England. It was consecrated on 18 April 1859. It became redundant in the 1970s, the congregation in 1974 moving out to the site of a daughter church, St Andrews, on the New Green Estate, more appropriately sited for the community it served, with a new building opened in 1980 known as Christ Church Centre. The old Christ Church was then converted to offices, known as The Old Church. Grade II listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347155.

Started in 1850, Christ Church was designed by Charles Parker in an Italianate style. It was funded by Alexander Raphael MP, who intended it to be a Roman Catholic Church, to be known as St Raphael's, although wasn't completed by the time of his death. The site was sold by his executors to Mrs Isabella Worley of New Barnes (now Sopwell House), who paid for its completion and who had it adopted by the Church of England. It was consecrated on 18 April 1859. It became redundant in the 1970s, the congregation in 1974 moving out to the site of a daughter church, St Andrews, on the New Green Estate, more appropriately sited for the community it served, with a new building opened in 1980 known as Christ Church Centre. The old Christ Church was then converted to offices, known as The Old Church. Grade II listed - see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1347155.