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Baker Street, ABERGAVENNY, NP7 5BH

Trinity Terrace is a separately-named 95 metre long row of 18 houses in Baker Street, opposite Holy Trinity Church. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723503 On the left is the entrance to Trinity Terrace Car Park.

From Tudor Street.

The short row of houses is located between Tudor Street and Trinity Street.

This is the Baker Street side of the Church in Wales church, in the Diocese of Monmouth. Holy Trinity Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Llandaff on November 6th 1840. It was built as a chapel to serve the adjacent almshouses and the nearby school. Grade II listed in 1974.

This is one of two rows of almshouses inside the grounds of Holy Trinity church. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723503 This row is on the SW side of the church. The other row is parallel to it on the NE side of the church. Grade II listed in January 1974.

A view of the church http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723503 looking towards Baker Street.

Part of the McCarthy Stone retirement housing development on the site formerly occupied by a magistrates court and police station.

Both built in the 1960's the court (foreground) and police station on the right in the background are now being demolished. The Magistrates Court had had a £500,000 upgrade in 2012 but within 18 months the then Home Secretary, Michael Gove announced its closure. It has been shut since 2014. The Police Station was becoming increasingly unsuitable with the custody suite no longer in use. The high maintenance costs of the building sealed its fate. Both buildings will be replaced by accommodation for senior citizens. Very sadly the photographer had to attend a coroners inquest at the Magistrates Court in 1993.

The yard is on the east side of Baker Street, part of the premises of Alun Griffiths Contractors. The main entrance to their office is on the far side, at 21-23 Nevill Street.

In the late 1950's and early 1960's 'far-sighted' town planners decided to demolish old buildings in this area, many with medieval origins, and install instead a 'civic centre' style boulevard with government offices and civic buildings sited along it. Here we see a part of the magistrate's courts on the right (a building with plenty of empty, useless space under it) and the job centre which also housed a tax office above it, I believe (another shoe box building of tiny charm). Thanks. Grrrr. They are all retired, knighted or OBE / CBE'd or gone to the planning meeting in the sky now I expect. Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble. At least the Sugar Loaf still looks impossibly beautiful...