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Rugby Road, LEAMINGTON SPA, CV32 6DQ

There is a bench mark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5302324 on the corner of the stone wall to the left.

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5302327 for location.

View from Rugby Road.

Local Blue Plaque commemorating Mary Dormer Harris the multi talented writer and historian who lived here from 1905. More details of her and her work can be found here http://www.leamingtonhistory.co.uk/mary-dormer-harris-1867-1936/

These houses in the characteristic large pale orange Leamington brick, together with those in adjoining Greatheed Road, were built by Samuel and Arthur Bird between 1903 and 1911. Gaveston refers to Piers Gaveston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Gaveston,_1st_Earl_of_Cornwall , favourite, possibly lover, of King Edward II. In 1312 he was murdered by his enemies on nearby Blacklow Hill Image where there is a commemorative cross, not yet photographed. A number of other streetnames in Leamington and Warwick refer to people and places associated with Gaveston's life and death.

Church of England, dating from 1879 in New Milverton.

The wall dates from the construction of the church in 1879, the lychgate being a 20th century addition in memory of Lieut. Gen. Sir John Lindesay Keir K.G.B. churchwarden of the church. Listed Grade II.

Photo taken on a visit during Heritage Open Days 2010. In 1875 an Act of Parliament created a new parish by dividing the original Milverton parish into two. This parish was then known as New Milverton. The money for building the church came from the legacy of Lady Frances Wheler, the sister of the parish's first vicar Charles Carus-Wilson. The land was given by the Heber-Percy family, the Dukes of Northumberland. The church was designed by George Gilbert Scott junior, is his only surviving church, and is thought to be his best surviving work. There is a magnificent set of stained glass windows, some by the famous stained glass artist William Kempe.

Originally painted black on white on brickwork, it reads: Bertie Terrace Rugby Road. There is another Bertie Terrace in Warwick Place (originally Bertie Road) Image They were built at the behest of landowner Bertie Bertie Greatheed of Guy's Cliffe.

Built 1879 to the design of architect George Gilbert Scott Jnr, who also designed the church, in Queen Anne revival style. Converted to apartments in around 1970. Listed Grade II.