SEPTEMBER 2017 Celebrating our Heritage, DIARY of EVENTS 2017/2018 Enhancing our Environment, Shaping our Future is a vibrant cathedral city, Amongst the many activities of the Society Thursday 21st September April (date tbc) surrounded by the beautiful countryside we: THE SECRET GARDEN PLANNING FORUM and villages of South . People  Monitor and constructively comment visit it or decide to live here because it is a on planning applications and develop - by Becky Twigg 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s welcoming community, working and ment proposals 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF trading in a marvellous historic setting. Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF Free to members: Non members £2.50 The challenges today are to maintain  Run an active and stimulating Free to members: Non members £2.50 those attractive qualities and yet programme of events for members th accommodate ongoing changes in and the public Wednesday June 6 population, lifestyle, and the economy.  Publish a quarterly magazine for Tuesday 21st November A G M , f o l l o w e d b y a t a l k o n S u b u r - members OPEN MEETING ban Salisbury, by Hadrian Cook The Salisbury Civic Society, founded in  Maintain our support for the projects 1960, works to promote high standards of The Maltings Redevelopment 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s promoted by the former Salisbury contemporary design in all aspects of the 6.30 pm Alamein Suite, City Hall, Vision Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF built environment within Salisbury and Malthouse Lane, Salisbury SP2 7TU South Wiltshire, whilst safeguarding the  Protect and celebrate the traditional Open to all historic buildings and landscape setting chequer names June (date tbc) underpinning the area’s special character.  Run a prestigious new buildings and Back by popular demand, another Over the years, the role of the Society has conservation awards scheme 2018 visit to NORRINGTON MANOR expanded. Today, it is not only the  Organise the annual Salisbury Historic See June 2017 magazine for details of how principal local organisation and guardian th Open Days and the Salisbury Blue Thursday 11 January to book for visits for the built environment, but also Plaques scheme celebrating our NEW YEAR PARTY AND ANNUAL celebrates and promotes the area’s rich outstanding built environment and AWARDS PRESENTATION heritage & cultural life through a heritage stimulating programme of activities.  Promote the economic vitality of the Guildhall, Salisbury SP1 1JH A Warm Welcome to our Salisbury falls under two authorities, region Application forms will be in the December New Members created in 2009, Salisbury City Council magazine and . We are able to Our aims: We are delighted to welcome the contribute effectively in many areas and  To celebrate & commemorate the following to the Society: th are represented on several groups area’s rich heritage & cultural life Thursday 8 March including the Salisbury Conservation Arundells, David and Heather Balston,  To enhance & protect the built THE QUAKERS IN SALISBURY Advisory Panel. We also have a good Tim and Cathy Brown, Bruce and Jane environment & landscape setting of working relationship with Wiltshire by Rosalind Johnson the area Court, Ed Esdon, Shirley Evans, Oliver Council, Salisbury City Council and 6.30 pm Methodist Church, St Edmund’s Gale, Rory and Mira Guinness, Phil  Campaign to Protect Rural England. As a To encourage & promote high stan - Church Street, Salisbury SP1 1EF Harding, Graham and Christine Jagger, dards of design, management & non-political organisation, the Society Free to members: Non members £2.50 Brian Munday, Patricia Phillips, John maintenance tries to maintain an independent stance and Val Potter, Dan Roycroft, Barrie on all matters.  To provide a stimulating programme Cover illustration: The Faulston Dovecote , and Cary Sinclair-Kemp, Stephen Sykes of activities for our members. Through a series of awards, talks, forums, Bishopstone (p.2). and Josephine Ings, Peter and Patricia open meetings, visits and our website we van Os, Denis and Barbara Watson, We welcome new members of all ages Photos in this issue: James Woods, Richard promote and provide information on the and backgrounds. Jamie Wright, Jillian Wright. architecture, history and geography of the Deane area. 1 EDITORIAL CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Drawn from AGM Address to members This issue of the magazine has been project. Page 24 has an explanation of produced on the same basis as the two why there’s still an element of uncertainty I hope all are enjoying the summer and revised version of a new Constitution will previous ones, with an editorial co- about the topic. welcome to you all and thank you for be circulated for comment and ultimately ordinator rather than an editor outright. attending on such a warm summer’s be proposed for adoption formally at next The June issue contained the good news One of several new members who joined evening with many other distractions! year’s AGM. that an editor had finally been found, in as a result of Civic Day is Oliver Gale, who at 14 can reliably be described as the the person of Society member John Elliott, Our thoughts are now very much with the It has been another busy year with Society’s youngest member, probably by but unfortunately John has had to stand families of those affected by the Grenfell various talks and lectures, activities, and the proverbial country mile. We’re down from taking on the role for the Tower disaster earlier today in North West involvement with various outside groups. delighted that Oliver has given his own September issue for health reasons. So London and I am sure we would all wish The Development Committee has perspective on one aspect of the current the previous pattern has been reverted to, to remember them in our prayers. continued to engage with various search for further housing sites, which with the significant difference that rather promoters of new developments such as appears alongside Elaine Milton’s account than Salisbury Printing taking on the I will keep my report brief and enable us the Quantum Group who are developing of that whole process on page 5. layout and graphic work, this has been to pass through the formal business and the Old Manor Hospital site, and recently done by member Hugh Synge. Hugh has then you can relax and enjoy Richard The cover photograph shows Faulston McCarthy & Stone who propose to build experience of producing small magazines Deane’s talk on the ‘History of the Civic Dovecote at Bishopstone, one of the retirement and assisted living apartments in the past, and kindly stepped into the Society Awards Scheme’. many buildings which have won awards in Castle Street and Endless Street. breach when John had to withdraw. or commendations from the Society’s So much happens during 12 months that Both organisations have presented their awards scheme since its inception in As usual, the material within is a mix of this address is only a very small reference ideas and architecture to the 1993. Its use here reflects the topic for looking ahead to future events, reviewing to some of the many activities of the Development Committee, and took away this year’s AGM talk, as described by Judy past ones, updates on planning cases, Society, but first I must mention that the feedback suggestions on how they might Howles on page 10. A medley of other and the odd piece which steps back a bit proposed adoption of the new improve on their initial concepts. Some winning buildings appears on the centre from the here and now. Into that category Constitution for the Civic Society will not comments have been taken on board, page spread. Stone boxes in the falls my own contribution on the multi- formally take place tonight, even though it particularly with regard to McCarthy & dovecote’s internal walls attest to the faceted pronunciation possibilities of the is shown on the agenda. Following recent Stone’s first design approach, though on accuracy of that description for it, but name ‘Caen’, only loosely tied to any consultations with the Charity the Old Manor Hospital site the Society some external features, in particular the definition of the Society’s remit. In more Commission it would appear that some still has major reservations. orthodox terrain, Civic Day on June 17th blocked doorway, suggest some more further changes are required to our new was a major event from the Society’s complicated history. The listings draft Constitution and it would not be It is sad these days that most Planning perspective, and it is of course covered description (it’s Grade II*) says ‘according possible to make those changes, circulate Applications are determined with only here. The effort that went into it was to local legend and John Aubrey there the new version and have suitable notice limited attention to architectural detailing considerable, but amply rewarded by were once four such towers around the period in advance of the AGM. and materials, and it is good that our Civic something which all who experienced it moated Faulston House, but this has not Society does, to some extent, have its In essence, the Charity Commission feel seem to have regarded as a definite been substantiated’. A challenge for some voice listened to, and that we take a keen that our existing Objects are more in line success, with a very positive feel inside historian or archaeologist in our ranks, interest in making observations. with the charitable aims of the Society the Guildhall while it was on. Some perhaps? There may not be that many of and therefore we shall probably retain On that topic, but not exclusively down to excellent posters were produced, some at the latter (but see the welcome to new them as existing with some minor us in the Civic Society, Wiltshire Council least of which will be used again for the members box...). amendments only. In due course, a have rejected the idea of housing Open Meeting in November, probably but Richard Deane not absolutely definitely on the Maltings Magazine co-ordinator 2 3 development on the Britford Lane fields. running from the 7th September when we Old Sarum – Old or New? They are outside the housing allocation will be unveiling the Civic Society plaque plans for Wiltshire Council and that is at the Rai D’Or public house on Brown Although I am only 14, I can remember to Ford, to Bishopdown and the northerly great news. However, we must all remain Street to commemorate Agnes coming along the A345, down the hill tip of Salisbury, which would have been vigilant in case the owners, the Longford Bottenham, who was an owner of that from High Post towards Old Sarum just awful! Estate and St Nicholas Hospital, decide to property and was founder of Trinity without seeing any houses, all you could challenge the Wiltshire decision, and this Hospital. Phil Harding, a notable see was the Cathedral poking out over the I must admit I find the name of the ‘new’ might occur during the public enquiry archaeologist and now Deputy Lord hill and the city hidden behind it. But now, Old Sarum a little frustrating. The true Old which will follow next year. I am delighted Lieutenant for Wiltshire, will be our guest only in the last two years, that view has Sarum is the old original Salisbury that the Civic Society with other lobby of honour for the unveiling. On the changed, dramatically; 673 houses are settlement, and I feel it is a shame that it groups have succeeded in their efforts. subsequent days for the Heritage Open now being built at Old Sarum, most of has to share its name with a new housing Days Weekend, we are working in development (this partly originates from The first Salisbury “Civic Day” is on which can be seen from the road. Not association with CAMRA on a wide variety Old Sarum Airfield which the industrial Saturday, 17th June 2017 starting at 10am only is it a shame for people travelling in of programmes focusing on the historic area took the name of and now the much at the Guildhall. We have brought that direction who no longer have the pubs and inns of Salisbury, their history, larger housing area). I know that if together many local groups magnificent uninterrupted view, it must architecture and much else beside. If you someone said: “I live in Old Sarum”, they representative of Civic life and activities in also feel very different for those living in look up the recent quarterly magazine, mean the new one, however if someone and around Salisbury and Mr John Glen, Longhedge House (a listed building), you will see all of the details on offer. said, “I’m going to Old Sarum”, you could our recently re-elected MP, will open opposite the new development. quite easily get confused. I still think that proceedings with an address at 10.30am. I Later in the proceedings this evening we The houses are not only visible from the the new estate’s name should be hope you will all come along to support shall elect our various Officers and road but also from Old Sarum castle, and I changed, or at least not let it get any the day, even if it is just for a short while. Committee chairmen but we are still feel they ruin the ancient roman view of bigger, because we should respect the (Post AGM / Civic Day note: over 300 looking for a volunteer to take on the role Salisbury Plain. I was studying Wiltshire heritage and history of Salisbury and not people attended and the day was a great of the Society Secretary. (Post AGM Note: I Council’s Housing Allocation Plan and dilute its significance. Added to which, it success!) am delighted to announce Barrie Sinclair- noticed that some proposed sites, that now means that New Sarum is older than Kemp has agreed to take on the post of had been dismissed as they would have Old Sarum. I would like to welcome all new members Secretary as a new joining Member gone through a conservation area, would to the Society and I do hope you have together with his wife Cary.) enjoyed participating thus far in our have joined the Old Sarum development Oliver Gale activities. The Society has much to offer, Finally, I would like to thank all of you who but please do not hesitate to make your participate in the organisation of events own ideas and suggestions known if you and serve on our Committees to give the Draft Wiltshire Housing Site Allocations Plan feel so inclined. We welcome in particular members of the Civic Society such a wide a new corporate member, Woolley & variety of programmes and activities. This long awaited document has finally which sets this out forms part of the Wallis Salisbury Salerooms, and we thank been published by Wiltshire Council and is planning policy framework against which Thank you for your support of the Civic them for sponsoring the publicity leaflets open for comments now until the 22nd future planning applications will be Society. associated with the Civic Day on Saturday. September 2017. assessed and is known as a development plan document (DPD). The DPD is We also look forward to the Heritage Peter Dunbar By law the Government requires every organised into the Council’s community Open Days in early September 2017 Council to produce planning documents areas, with the Salisbury Community Area which allocate enough land to allow the covering the settlements of Salisbury and building of homes to meet the area Wilton. Initially 74 strategic housing land needed for housing objectively assessed availability assessment (‘SHLAA’) sites on a rolling five-year basis. The document, 4 5 were considered in and around Salisbury. end of the matter: The owners may These are sites put forward by decide to submit representations in a bid landowners and third parties to the to have the site reinstated into the plan. It Council. One of these was Britford Lane, is perfectly within their rights to do so, as which the DPD confirms was rejected would be the submission of an after the first stage of consideration due application for the site for planning to its perceived lack of sustainability when permission. evaluated against a set of objective criteria. Only four SHLAA sites are now Following the consultation, the Council being proposed for the Salisbury area, will consider the comments received potentially providing around 850 new before submitting the draft DPD and homes. Three of these were on the initial supporting evidence to the Secretary of list, namely Hilltop Way (approximately 10 State for examination. All comments houses), land at Netherhampton Road received during the consultation will be Above, No 47 Blue Boar Row in 1838 (central there was a map showing the locations of (approximately 640 houses), and Land at passed on to the appointed independent building) and (right) how the 17th C building the 72 conservation areas in the Society’s Rowbarrow, Odstock Road (approximately Planning Inspector at that stage. The at the rear might have looked. district. 100 houses). One site not on the original inspector has a duty to consider whether list has been added, North of the plan has been prepared legally and on collaboration. Stephanie Siddons Three posters dealt with the Salisbury Netherhampton Road (approximately 100 a sound basis, as prescribed by the Deighton added additional colour to the gasometer, including the image used on houses). The Civic Society will make Planning regulations. The current day by procuring and distributing yellow the front cover of the June magazine. Four representations on the proposed sites, a timetable on the Wiltshire Council website helium filled balloons outside. Woolley & covered activities undertaken by the summary of which will be provided within indicates submission and examination of Wallis Salisbury Salerooms, who are now Society’s General Purposes Committee – a future Quarterly. At this stage it is likely the DPD in Spring 2018, with adoption in corporate members of the Society, talks, visits, plaques and Heritage Open the site North of Netherhampton Road Winter 2018. generously sponsored publicity for the Days. There was a poster telling the story could be considered contentious due to event. of the new sheep above 51 High Street, Any member wishing to submit individual the potential impact of housing on the one dealing with the Society’s vetting of comments can do so via http://www. The day was themed on heritage and important landscape setting of the City. planning applications, and one covering wiltshire.gov.uk/planninganddevelopment/ open spaces, with the list of contributing open meetings, focusing on public art and While Britford Lane is no longer being put planningpolicy/wiltshsgsiteallocationsplan. organisations, 16 in total in addition to the Maltings. One set out the Society’s forward by this plan, this may not be the htm the Society, ranging from the Salisbury position on the Britford Lane fields, and Elaine Milton Museum to local environmental and there was one produced by Gerald Steer, building conservation groups, a local architect with a longer connection Civic Day in the Guildhall archaeology and local history groups. to the Society than most, having been a There was an architect’s surgery, courtesy stalwart of its predecessor body, the Salisbury Civic Society supported and Robin McGowan of Salisbury Business of Paul Stevens. The central part of the Salisbury and District Preservation Trust. organised our first ever Civic Day on Improvement District; these contributions Banqueting Hall was taken up with a This dealt with a fascinating 17thC Saturday 17th June. This was part of the perfectly set the tone for the day. We display showing the full range of the building, in very poor condition at the 2017 National Civic Day programme, counted over 300 participants, many of Society’s activities with attractive images back of 47 Blue Boar Row. It is now the sponsored by Civic Voice. The event, whom spent considerable time looking at focusing on the awards scheme (originally property of the City Council, and the which had an exhibition format, was the displays, talking and networking produced for an exhibition outside Society will be trying to encourage that opened by John Glen MP (Parliamentary (photos on back cover). The exhibitors in Waitrose last September). Several new body to make the most of it. Under-Secretary of State for the particular welcomed the rare opportunity displays were designed specifically for Department for Culture, Media and Sport) to meet each other and discuss areas of Civic Day. For example, four explained We combined our poster exhibition with and there was a talk at mid-day from common interest, and possible future what conservation areas are about, and an animated screen display featuring the 6 7 conservation areas of Salisbury and South heritage of Salisbury and its Conservation Areas. The competition A lot of work, by various people, went into Wiltshire. The display was arranged as a neighbourhood. The selection of pictures required entrants to match eight the posters, and getting them all tour starting in The Close and moving reached from Mere in the West, to photographic views within the City of produced for the day was a tight-run thing through a selection of 20 listed buildings Newton Tony in the East. Salisbury Conservation Area to locations – the last one was collected from in Salisbury as well as a further 14 marked on a map of the designated area. Salisbury Printing three minutes before The leaflet publicising the event contained buildings in 12 outlying villages. The tour Three winners were drawn at random they closed for the weekend. A few will be a competition relating to the national provided a synopsis of the rich and varied from the almost 40 correct entries overtaken by events, like the gasometer theme of this year’s Civic Day – received; winning 1st to 3rd prizes of £50, ones, but most will remain perfectly valid Below, the prize competition a copy of the Civic Society’s publication beyond Civic Day, and the Society will be Salisbury in Detail, and a year’s free looking for opportunities to bring them 8  88 membership of the society respectively. out again in the future. 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 soldiers before taking on the main role in  Our first stop was at St Nicholas Church, treating New Zealand troops. We were Brockenhurst, reputed to be the oldest in shown the immaculate cemetery where the New Forest and one of the only two there are 93 New Zealand graves, one $.%* +$)') + ,"%) %$"))'( $) ' %$ mentioned in the Domesday Book. ) $)'.%'#4"" $.%*'$#$%$))) "($)! Australian grave and those of three Indian  .%*'$)'.)%)  +  .+$))) * " "" Christians have worshipped on the site and three unidentified Belgian civilians. %().%*'$)'.%'# $) %-)) %$('+) %$' since AD737, and despite the inevitable -  ) %$ The annual celebration of Anzac Day at Victorian urge to renovate buildings, there the church draws both local worshippers is still some Saxon herringbone masonry and representatives of the New Zealand in the nave as well as a Norman font and government. mouldings round the South door. There we were plied with hot drinks and Anzac After that we were more than ready for a oatmeal biscuits,made for us to a New delicious and lavish lunch at the Red Lion Zealand recipe from Scottish forebears, by in Boldre, where wooden beams provide a welcoming representatives of the parish. hanging place for rural antiques, and the They also gave us some fascinating friendly staff quickly dispersed any alarm insights into the part played by which might have been caused by the

Left, members at St Nicholas Church, Brockenhurst

9 metal plaque of 1868 announcing that as West Indies, he re-invented its role and from that date “poachers shall be shot on made use of New Forest oak to build over first sight and if practicable questioned 50 ships for the Royal Navy, including afterwards”. three which fought in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. As the demand for We then had the option of either wooden warships declined, the role of the exploring Brockenhurst or investigating village changed again, and already by the Bucklers Hard, with lovely parkland, end of the nineteenth century it had gardens and river views, a maritime become what it remains, a popular tourist museum, a shipwright’s cottage, a chapel destination. where contraband was once stored, a Georgian bath house and other relics of The afternoon’s treats made a satisfactory its ship building past. The village had end to another excellent outing organised executed interior, whereas the non award Above: A new sign for the former Tollgate originally been destined by the eighteenth by Wendy and her husband John, inspired winner had too rough a stone exterior for Inn – award 2014 century owner of the Beaulieu Estate to by a local friend of theirs. a design that would have traditionally become a hub for import and export of been smooth ashlar in finish. In 2015 the first Lord Congleton Award for sugar, but when the French captured the Lis Woods new builds was awarded to the Not all award winning extensions have Stonehenge Visitor Centre. mirrored the design of the original History of the Civic Society Awards Scheme building; for example, the gallery at Roche The judging panel comprises a Court was of a contemporary design. chairman/woman, an architect and a lay At the AGM on 14 June 2017, Richard now demolished and Aldi stands on the person, both being members of the Deane of the society gave an interesting site. Another early winner was Holly Close In 1999 the extensions were renamed development committee, and a planning illustrated account of the History of the Bowerchalke, traditionally designed ‘conservation’ awards and in 2000 the officer. The chair changes each year, Civic Society Awards Scheme. The scheme ‘affordable housing’. Lady Radnor Award for conservation generally a locally well known personality started in 1993 and Richard became schemes of exceptional quality was given, The awards scheme was reformed in 1996 who is a good speaker. The first in 1993 involved in 1996. Originally new builds the first going to the restoration of the so that the new build and refurbishment/ was the secretary of the Royal Fine Arts and refurbishments were considered west front of the Cathedral. The most extensions awards were on alternate Commission. Not all invitees have together with one award and one recent was the Paragon, Wilton Road, in years and there was no limit on the accepted though; Harrison Birtwistle was commendation in each category. 2014. number of awards and commendations cont. p.14 One of the early winners, Autechnique, given. We were shown slides of some with its then innovative curved roof, is innovative buildings – Rock Cottage lIlustrated overleaf: 6. Stonehenge Visitor Centre – Lord Congleton Award 2015 Chilmark, a rebuild with ecological 1. Apple House, Barford St Martin – features, and The Lynchets Mere which award 2015 7. Gallery at Roche Court, Winterslow – award 1999 was purpose designed for an occupier 2. The Temple, Wilbury House, Newton with multiple sclerosis. Tony, repairs – award 2000 8. U3A sundial, St Thomas’s Square, Salisbury – commendation 2001 3. Bowling Green House, Devonshire As a contrast Richard showed us new Road, Salisbury – award 2015 9. Cowpens, Fonthill Bishop – award builds of traditional farmhouse design. 2000 4. Bourne Hill, Salisbury, extension – One was an award winner and one not. award 2010 10. East Knoyle Community shop – The award winner also had a well award 2007 5. Nuggs, Blue boar Row, Salisbury – Cloudberry House, Donhead St Mary – Lady Radnor Award, 2006 11. Lynchets, Mere – award 2013 award 2013 10 11 12 6

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10 11 Anti-Poundbury and declined. Jonathan as a case where (unknown to the Civic Meades could not accept the principle Society) the shop was a front for an illegal that the chair would defer to the other drugs operation, so the owner received judges if he was in a minority. He was firstly a Civic Society award and then a replaced at short notice by a former prison sentence. Chapter Clerk. Terry Pratchett chaired in 2004. Richard showed some of the more unusual ‘conservation’ awards: Cowpens The awards scheme has embraced Courtyard at Fonthill which was turned projects as diverse as the Milford Street from a non-descript farm building to a murals, the East Knoyle Community Shop, ‘gothick’ eye catcher, a restored dovecote and the U3A millennium sundial. at Faulston, and a new sign at the former Tollgate Inn (now houses). There have been ones that got away because the owners have not wanted Finally we were given a sneak preview of their schemes nominated, such as potential entries for the next awards. It Clarendon Park and Ferne Park. will be exciting to discover which are be a melancholy and arguably not very 1970, and replaced by the current one, successful. profitable one. The case shown here, which served as the offices of the South There have been ‘colourful’ winners, such Judy Howles however, is probably little known to many, Wiltshire Water Board, until that body and striking enough to be worth disappeared in 1974. The district council Lost Salisbury including. The current form of No 61 came into being that year, and took on Wyndham Road (above ) is a building the new building for its own use. Another Salisbury’s buildings fared much better dating from before 1850. By the early familiar to quite a few people, functioning pumping station, of similar period, does than did those of some places during the 1970s, 150 of these had disappeared, with as it did as the planning office of Salisbury survive, on the S side of Devizes Road redevelopment craze of the 1960s, when more still to follow. But even in Council. It is currently vacant, and near the junction with Highbury Avenue. the cry ‘you can’t stop progress!’ was quite a lot went, as can be seen in the seeking a user, with permission given for It’s a listed building, having gained that frequently heard. Poole, for instance, was invaluable 1980 volume on its historic conversion to flats. Photographic records, status in 1972, during a general listing recorded in 1950 as having 329 buildings buildings produced by the Royal in the Historic England archives and exercise in the city. If the Wyndham Road Commission on Historical elsewhere, show the previous occupant of building could have hung on another Monuments. This body the site to have been this rather fine couple of years, it might well have been worked in a fairly pumping station ( left ). listed as well, and still be with us. leisurely way, and quite a few entries record a It was presumably built in 1854, which is To avoid undue melancholia, ‘Lost building only to finish when a combined well and borehole was Salisbury’ probably won’t become a ‘demolished’, with a date sunk on the site, to a total depth of 115 regular feature, but if any members have given generally between feet. The pumping engines were steam photos of interesting vanished buildings the late 1950s and the powered, and remained so until replaced which are little-known, do please send early 1970s. by a mix of electric and diesel ones in them in. 1938. The building was demolished in There is therefore plenty Richard Deane of scope to illustrate lost buildings, but the effect of over-doing this would

14 15 Visit to Norrington Manor, 1 June 2017

21 people met on a warm and sunny While half the party were shown round morning outside a secluded Grade 1 listed the pre-Wyndham part of the house, the building in the Ebble Valley, Norrington other half explored the Manor’s attractive Manor. We were shown round by its owner, garden (designed, like Sissinghurst, as a Jonathan Sykes, and the archaeologist and series of inter-connected “rooms”) or sat architectural historian, Tim Tatton-Brown. and chatted on the strategically placed benches around the property. Tim began by outlining the history of the site. He took us to a viewpoint of a Following our time in Norrington several peaceful and completely uninhabited of us went to the nearby mediaeval wooded valley and told us that a few church of St Mary’s in Alvediston, where hundred years ago we would have been Tim introduced us to its main looking at a large and prosperous village. architectural features and its monuments, It was probably deserted after the Black including a splendid early 15th century Death killed off about half the population effigy of a recumbent knight, believed to of the country in the 14th century, and represent John Gawen, and a beautifully was gradually taken over by grassland and carved modern memorial to Sir Anthony trees. The manor, which was bought in Eden, who died in his home in Alvediston 1377 by John Gawen (perhaps a in 1977. A representative of the parish descendant of Sir Gawain, one of the then showed us the church’s Elizabethan knights of the Round Table) was situated silverware (which includes a communion on the edge of what had been a thriving cup and a paten, both made in Salisbury) community. John Gawen immediately and spoke about the three church bells used his wealth to develop the property. A which are awaiting restoration as soon as great Hall was built, and survives to this sufficient funds have been raised. Two of day, as does an undercroft, a rib-vaulted them date from the 1630s. As we were strong room and a grand 15th century leaving she pealed them one after the entrance porch. Tudor and Elizabethan other, and their gentle chimes rang in our features were subsequently introduced, ears as we drove away back home. and the house was extended by the Wyndham family after it bought the We are most grateful for the efforts made estate in 1658. Despite its varied by both Jonathan Sykes and Tim Tatton- architectural history the house retains a Brown to make our visit instructive and most pleasingly harmonious appearance. enjoyable. St Mary’s Church, Alvediston. (Top) church This is in large part due to the efforts of from the south; (above) C15th effigy, James Woods the Sykes family, which bought a much believed to be John Gawen; and (right), dilapidated estate from the Wyndhams in Salisbury-made silver – Communion cup 1952 and has been painstakingly c. 1575 and paten c. 1680. restoring it ever since.

16 17 Caen – The Wiltshire Version street in the village (or town, which it straightforward, and near enough, and tends to feel like). adopted by nearly everyone, though with one notable exception. The architect It may be a few miles outside the Society’s different ways, something with no The prime use for the name obviously has Martin Caroe, a member of an area, but many members will be familiar immediate local parallels. to be Caen in Normandy, historically of architectural dynasty which currently with the Kennet and Avon canal as it considerable importance and the third In the Devizes case, Caen is pronounced spans four generations, was in charge of passes to the north, and in particular with largest city in that region of France, ‘cane’, and the same is also true when the the repairs to the west front of Wells the remarkable Caen Hill flight of locks in though its architecture was devastated by word turns up again as a place name at cathedral in the 1970s and 80s, an Devizes ( below ). Comprising 29 locks, 16 of post D-Day conflict in 1944. The French Braunton, west of Barnstaple in north exercise of great significance in its them in a continuous run, this makes an pronunciation, which does no more than Devon. Braunton is sometimes put encouragement of an enlightened excellent culmination for an east to west hint at the final ‘n’ and is generally forward for the title ‘largest village in approach to the conservation of historic alternative route through the town, by represented as k ̃, has of course no direct England’, a somewhat dubious claim given architecture, and in particular to the foot or bicycle as well as by boat. Devizes parallel in Englishɑ, which gives plenty of that ‘village’ is not a very tightly defined conservation of stonework. Martin Caroe itself takes its name from the construction leeway when there’s a need for English term. Much more to the point is the preferred to call the stone ‘Can’, and gave of a castle, initially in the C11th, at the speakers to attempt to represent it. One genuine distinction of Braunton Great no signs of being at all bothered by being boundaries – ‘ad divisas’ – of three of the major reasons for this need has Field, an exceptionally rare survival of an somewhat out on a limb over this. estates. The origins of the Caen name been the excellence of Caen stone, a open area of agricultural land still laid out seem more obscure, and what will also creamy-yellow limestone quarried near So this one name can be pronounced ‘k ̃’, in the old medieval strip system, though not be immediately obvious is how to the city. In the early medieval period, large ‘cane’, ‘carn’ or ‘can’, in different contextsɑ the number of individual owners was pronounce it. Delving into the answer quantities of it were imported into this and by different people, and it is not much diminished in the C20th. The river leads to the possibly rather curious fact country, with for instance Canterbury impossible that other variants have also Caen flows through the settlement and that this is a name word of four letters Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the been known. To the average English out into the Taw, and gives its name to a which can be pronounced in at least four Tower of London all being partially speaker there will be no intuitive, right constructed from it. The later middle ages answer as regards the pronunciation, and saw its importance decline, but the the ‘cane’ choice at Devizes is as Victorians were big fans of it. In Salisbury reasonable as any. One clue as to why the its use at that time seems to have been name Caen became connected with the restricted to internal church fittings, but St town seems to be offered by a ‘Wiltshire Mary’s church in Andover is a good community history’ thumbnail account of example of its external use, combined in Devizes, supplied by Wiltshire Council, this case with high quality knapped and which says that after the original timber squared flintwork. St Mary’s also shows castle burned down it was rebuilt in stone that the C19th stone was coming from by Richard of Caen, ‘Osmund’s successor beds of lower quality than the earlier as Bishop of Salisbury’. However as every stone, with a lot of decay now evident. other account seems to name Osmund’s Limited quantities are still available today, successor as Roger of Salisbury, with no of uncertain durability. other references anywhere to the shadowy Richard of Caen, this trail quickly The importance of the stone in England runs cold. Tracking down the birthplaces has made some form of pronunciation of of names is in any case often a fruitless its name essential, and unsurprisingly the occupation, liable to be beset along the stone trade makes no attempt to replicate way by shoals of red herrings. A mile to the French original, preferring instead to the north of the flight of locks, maps show refer to the stone as ‘Carn’. Simple, 18 19 a small settlement called Tanis. best avoided – Sixpenny Handley, south of Appropriated in passing by the first us in Dorset, owes its name to Indiana Jones film, as the name of circumstances which have nothing at all another location for unlikely exploits by to do with old coinage, and Chicklade east the titular hero, Tanis, while it may not of Mere has no easy connection with eggs have harboured the Ark of the Covenant, and poultry, any more than does Henlade was in fact a genuine Egyptian city of east of Taunton. considerable importance, located in the Nile delta, at its peak early in the first Tanis, and Caen, are names which give millennium BC, and then abandoned after nothing away about how they came to be a change of water course made it used for humble places far away from the unviable. Any connection between it and much grander municipalities to which the version near Devizes seems unlikely, they were first attached. And the second but how that place got its title may be of the two leaves us guessing as to how or beyond the reach of enquiry. The when the multiple choice question of how somewhat convoluted story of how to pronounce it in Wiltshire was resolved, Salisbury, and Sarum, came by their unless, in a spirit of contrariness, it was a matter of going for something as names (essentially, the latter was a The McCarthy & Stone retirement flats: positive event has been the retention of unrecognisable as possible to the citizens mistake) illustrates the difficulties elevations as seen from Castle Street (top) & an unlisted but attractive terrace in the of Normandy. inherent in place-name etymology, and Endless Street (from the planning application) SW part of the site. An earlier proposal to the shifts across time that hide true Richard Deane demolish this was opposed by the Society, origins. Simple explanations are often commitment could result in something and some reconfiguration of the layout of not much better than the first design the whole site has now enabled the approach promised. One can only hope terrace’s retention. However to the north PLANNING UPDATES for the best. quite a number of new buildings are to go up, around the listed Avon House, initially Old Manor Hospital site designed, for some reason, to resemble McCarthy & Stone, Castle separate house fronts, but completely semi-detached houses of the 1930s. This Street/Endless Street lacked anything resembling doors (since The Society continues to try to influence styling was then shed, in favour of a the entire development is in fact inward- some of the details of the redevelopment, vaguely neo-Georgian one, but with so A planning application by McCarthy & looking flats), deepened the gloom. After but given the view commonly taken that little detail provided about materials or Stone, submitted in May, has now been discussions with the planners and others, the rescue of the long-derelict site is so other key points that proper assessment approved. The scheme will create 100+ and amendments, including two welcome that almost anything is likely to of the designs was impossible. The retirement flats on the large Aviva office appearances by the architect at be acceptable, within reason, and the Society’s request for more information site, between Castle Street and Endless Development Committee meetings, the commercial pressure the developers are got nowhere, and the latest news is that Street, with the current buildings final design was much more promising, under to cram on as much as possible, permission has been given for all four disappearing. The Society found the though a depiction of it which was the efficacy of our efforts has not been phases of the site’s redevelopment, original form of the scheme profoundly featured in the Journal did it no favours. great. (The developers paid £4.1 million without any further enlightenment depressing, with a banal neo-historical This one could go either way. Decent for a site which Wiltshire Council had provided as to what these new houses will elevational treatment of the sort which, as materials and attention to detailing could previously offered the NHS £1 for. Given actually look like. actually built, is seldom convincing at the create something which , in particular, the cost of rescuing its listed buildings, a best of times. The fact that this treatment enhances the approach into the city along sum somewhere in the middle might have If the final outcome, for the whole site, is attempted to create the illusion of Castle Street, while a lack of such been more appropriate). The most one that lacks both any real sense of the 20 21 An aerial view of Bristol Civic Society visit the Old Manor Hospital site, from the 1920s 31 members of Bristol Civic Society came The following note of thanks was received or 1930s to Salisbury on Wednesday 21st of June from Bristol: and were welcomed by members of Salisbury Civic Society. Neil Beagrie, Thank you to you and your colleagues Richard Deane, and Hadrian Cook led for making such an enjoyable day! We tours through the city and around St had a simply wonderful day out, Thomas’s Church, Water learning a great deal about the history former character of this very individual latter often being seen as having a Meadows, and Salisbury’s historic pubs and the present day challenges of the part of Salisbury, and any design significant chance of success if a and inns. In addition there were also City and meeting such knowledgeable distinctiveness in its own right, it would be recommendation to approve is ignored. tours of the Cathedral and tower. members of the Salisbury Civic hard to attach much blame to the The confident prediction in the March Members of both Societies met over Society. For me the highlight was the developers who eventually took the site magazine was that ‘given the work put lunch at the Rai d’Or. Many of our trip up the Cathedral Tower, one not to on. Its whole story, since the hospital into the whole scheme, simple members have said how much they be missed! closed around 2000, is one of missed abandonment of it is the least likely enjoyed meeting colleagues from Bristol I hope we will be able to arrange a visit opportunities, with buildings quietly option’. However nothing was heard for Civic Society and also learning about their to Bristol for you and your members? mouldering and becoming more and six months, until an application was work over lunch. It was an excellent day more expensive to rescue, and an ever- submitted to convert the upper floors of and we are exploring possibilities for a Thanks and best wishes increasing sense that almost anything 98 Crane Street from their current reciprocal visit of SCS to Bristol as part of would be preferable to the eyesore much business use, into a flat. The whole story our programme for 2018. Simon Birch of the site had become. is unclear, with no obvious connection Chair, Bristol Civic Society between those submitting the application Neil Beagrie Riverside restaurants and those involved with the restaurants proposal. However it is hard to see why BOOK REVIEW As reported in the March magazine, a anyone would want to pay for proposals proposal to create two restaurants, to be drawn up, and an application “The Public Houses and Inns of Salisbury: a history” by alongside the riverside walk between submitted, if there was any realistic Edwin M Garman was published in July by Hobnob Press. Crane Street and Fisherton Street, chance of the building being pulled down This 332-page paperback will be of great interest to anyone depended on the current 98 Crane Street and a gateway structure built in its place, interested in Salisbury’s social history and its pubs and inns. being replaced by a building incorporating any time soon. The assumption has to be a gateway into the site, which is otherwise that the restaurants proposal has been It is a compendium of detailed historical information about inaccessible. The Society accepted a abandoned, and the riverside path will 270 premises in Salisbury of all periods that are or have second design for this building as being continue in its present form, tranquil, but been inns, alehouses, taverns, public houses and just about good enough for its location, as passing by an abandoned part of the old beerhouses, with illustrations by Fred Fieber, an did the planners, who recommended the Woolworths building, which may indeed introduction setting the context, explanations of terms, a whole proposal for approval when it went have potential to be something rather reprint of a series of 19th-century articles about old inns of to the relevant Wiltshire Council more interesting. Views on this apparent Salisbury, cross-references and notes. committee. However the members then outcome will no doubt be mixed. decided to refuse the application, in It’s in stock at Waterstones, at £14.95, or can be ordered January this year. This left the possibility Richard Deane elsewhere. (ISBN-13: 978-1906978433). of a revised proposal, or an appeal, the Neil Beagrie 22 23 Open Meeting, November 21st OFFICERS as at 1 ëí September 2017

The Maltings Redevelopment PRESIDENT Elaine Milton Dame Rosemary Spencer DCMG [email protected] Louise Rendell 6.30pm at the Alamein Suite, City Hal l completion, of what apparently is a first VICE PRESIDENTS [email protected] phase, presumably of two, will take place As with the last two Open Meetings, the Major General Roy Dixon Jeremy Turtle around autumn 2020. They have quoted Mr Ken Wiltshire [email protected] talks will start at 7.30, but there will be an £85 million as the likely expenditure for Brigadier Alastair Clark Melanie Latham introductory session starting at 6.30, this phase. The aerial photograph below [email protected] aimed at encouraging attenders who are shows the outline of the entire site, as EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David Gregory not members to join. Committee advertised by Wiltshire Council in 2011. Peter Dunbar (Chairman) [email protected] members will be present to explain what [email protected] James Salman the Society is about, and light refresh- We have been told by TH Real Estate that 01722 417847 [email protected] ments will be available. There will be the date of the Open Meeting should be Richard Deane (Vice-Chairman) Hans-Dieter Scholz displays on the Society’s work, drawing on realistic for giving details of their plans. [email protected] [email protected] the material used at Civic Day. Those who Just in case timings slip, the Society needs 07974 140888 Ed Jameson already belong to the Society will of to have a back-up topic, and currently the Barrie Sinclair-Kemp (Secretary) [email protected] course be equally welcome to come along thinking is that this could be a focus on [email protected] Anne Upson Adrian Harris (Treasurer) [email protected] to this part of the meeting. one aspect of the Maltings project, the [email protected] Dan Roycroft enhancement of cultural facilities at the The aim is to focus on the details of the Charles Villiers (Membership Scout) [email protected] Fisherton Street end of the site. This [email protected] forthcoming Maltings redevelopment, but would ideally be widened out to consider 01722 500173 this has to be qualified somewhat by the whole structure of cultural provision James Woods (GPC) GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE saying that as this magazine goes to in the city, not least what assurances can [email protected] James Woods (Chairman) press, there is no absolute certainty that be given that there really will be a festival Neil Beagrie (Publicity) [email protected] the developers, TH Real Estate, will be in 2019. However seeking to put a [email protected] 01722 422169 ready to reveal exactly what they plan. As meeting like this together, at short notice, Stephanie Siddons Deighton (Website) Lis Woods (Secretary) reported in the Journal, they expect to be may be a touch ambitious. [email protected] [email protected] in a position to do this before the end of 07710 945113/01722 502575 Judy Howles (Lectures) this year, with a planning application early Members will receive word, either by email Judith Payne (Membership) [email protected] next year, and work starting around or in printed form, of the final shape of the [email protected] Brenda Hunt (Visits) September. Their projection is that meeting, a week or two before it . [email protected] Neil Beagrie (Publicity) DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE [email protected] Paul Stevens (Acting Chairman) Janet Patch (Blue Plaques) [email protected] [email protected] Richard Deane (Secretary) Hadrian Cook [email protected] [email protected] Leslie Lipscombe [email protected] Printers : Salisbury Printing 01722 413330 Nicola Lipscombe [email protected] www.salisburycivicsociety.org.uk Registered charity 293143

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