Historic Buildings
 The Long Alley almshouse is an elegant building, still in use for its original purpose. But it also... more |
 Lacies Court is the headmaster’s house at Abingdon School but it had a long and colourful earlier... more |
 There was an inn on this site before 1554 when it was noted in a survey as The Bell. Its status as... more |
 The Gateway dates from the late fifteenth century and was the main entrance to Abingdon Abbey. A... more |
 This self-confident, classical-fronted building on The Square is the former Congregational Church.... more |
 At the south-east corner of Albert Park, where Park Road and Park Crescent meet, there stands a... more |
 The Tomkins family were wealthy maltsters during the eighteenth century and built Abingdon’s three... more |
 Christ Church opened in 1961 in the large Grade II listed barn at Northcourt Farm, the most... more |
 The Checker dates from the 1260s and is one of the oldest of the surviving buildings of the great... more |
 Geoffrey Barbour was one of the men who organised the building of Abingdon Bridge. When he died in... more |
 These three-storey houses were built soon after 1823 in a Corporation initiative that was unusual... more |
 No.55 with its neighbour No.51 are part of a timber framed row of rental properties built some time... more |
 No.48 is one of the few surviving early houses in West St Helen Street. It is timber-framed, and... more |
 Behind the elegant Georgian façade of No.30 there is a long sequence of building and adaptation to... more |
 The Abingdon Baptist community dates from 1650, and in 1652 they acquired the present church site. ... more |
 Abingdon Bridge was built in 1416 by local town initiative, not by the Abbey. A guild named the... more |
 This “exceedingly handsome” building – as John Betjeman described it – was erected between 1678 and... more |
 No.28 is one of the largest and most impressive houses in East St Helen Street. A building on the... more |
 From 1937 to 2008, 54 Ock Street and the subsidiary buildings behind it housed the printing works... more |
 The present building, with its odd roof design and gables, goes round the corner and includes Nos.... more |
 This house stands on the east side of the street and next door but one to St Nicolas' Church. It is... more |
