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Church Street, DEVIZES, SN10 4DU

Number 33 Church Street is early/mid 19th century in brick with an ashlar facade. The house has some nice details with pilasters, Ionic capitals and eaves brackets. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035840 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.

The Drummer Boy pub is on the left and there are pollarded trees on the right.

What a nice feature.

The sundial is on the porch. Sundials or sun clocks are considered to be the oldest known device for the measurement of time and one of the most ancient scientific instruments. The oldest known true sundial was built around 1500BC in Egypt. Shaped like a letter 'L' the length of the shadow cast by the vertical leg along the horizontal leg indicated the time. The Romans perfected the horizontal sundial we know today and invented portable travelling versions.

This former school was built in 1846 and accommodated boys and girls separately. Taken over by Wiltshire County Council by 1905, the separate schools closed in 1914 and re-opened as a mixed school. By 1955 this was a voluntary controlled school and there were 142 children. In 1971 the school closed when a new school was built. Recently (2018) refurbished the school is now a community space. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035834 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.

This village must have both a history worth cherishing and historians who are worth cherishing.

One of the nicest houses on this street.

This raised and inclined pavement leading up to churchyard entrance in front of the old school is listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1182596 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.