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St. Marys Square, HORNCASTLE, LN9 5HJ

A pedestrian lane leading to the church. I was very tempted to photoshop out the wheelie bin.....

The further two houses 11 and 12 are grade II Listed; formerly three now only two cottages of late 18th century origin altered late 19th and 20th century they are mud and stud encased in red brick. (The listing was updated Oct. 2014 to include No.10 and describes them as 3 cottages).

Three grade II listed, late 18th century, red brick encased mud & stud cottages in St.Mary's Square.

Three grade II listed, late 18th century, red brick encased mud & stud cottages in St.Mary's Square.

As seen from Church Lane.

No.2 Church Walk.

Weathervane - In the ninth century A.D., the pope reportedly decreed that every church in Europe should show a cock on its dome or steeple, as a reminder of Jesus' prophecy that the cock would not crow the morning after the Last Supper, until the disciple Peter had denounced Him three times (Luke 22:34). Because of this story, "weather cocks" have topped church steeples for centuries

Looking at the west side of St Mary's church with the clock on the tower. The doorway is obscured by what I think is a yew tree. http://uk.local.yahoo.com/England/Lincolnshire/Churches/1002405280-e-12602145.html

Grade II Listed house and former dental surgery. A tuberculosis dispensary and Infant Welfare Centre, the first in the county, was founded Oct 28th 1789 by a preliminary meeting in the Bull Inn. This took formal shape on Dec. 3rd following, when the governing body was elected, consisting of Sir Joseph Banks, President, with Vice-Presidents the Honble. Lewis Dymoke, King’s Champion, Thomas Coltman, Esq., William Elmhirst, Esq., Treasurer, and Richard Clitherow, Gent., legal adviser; the Honorary Physicians being Edmund Laycock, M.D., and Edward Harrison, M.D., with Mr. John Chislett as Surgeon and Apothecary. The institution was to be open on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. till noon. The building was rented for the sum of five guineas a year, until it was purchased in Feb. 1810, for the institution, jointly by Dr. Harrison and the Rev. John Fretwell for £111 2s. 8d. Improvements were made in this building, at a cost of £13 5s., in 1812, and of £27 15s. 7d. in 1821. What is now the War Memorial Centre at 52 North Street was erected in 1866 as the new dispensary and in 1867 the old house in the churchyard was sold for £142 11s. 4d., and the new premises were occupied in the autumn of that year.