The Survey of Bath and District The Magazine of the Survey of Old Bath and Its Associates No.19, November 2004 The Survey of Bath and District No.19, November 2004 THE SURVEY OF BATH AND DISTRICT The Magazine of the Survey of Old Bath and its Associates Number 19 November 2004 CONTENTS City News I City News II: Bath Archaeological Trust Marek Lewcun District News Reports from Local Societies Publications Letters Page Notes and Queries To Invade or Not to Invade – Did it Happen? Peter Davenport A Restoration Clinic – Dr.Robert Peirce and the Abbey House Roger Rolls Sion House, No.1 Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol Mike Chapman Wade’s Passage – A Lost Street Elizabeth Holland The Wade’s Passage Diagram Elizabeth Holland Leonard Coward, Gentleman, 1717-1795 Ruth Haskins The Line of Wealthy Batheaston Clothiers, All Named John Fisher Allan Keevil Friends of the Survey: List of Members Editors: Mike Chapman 51 Newton Road, Bath BA2 1RW tel: 01225 426948, email:
[email protected] Elizabeth Holland 16 Prior Park Buildings, Bath BA2 4NP tel: 01225 313581 Front Cover Illustration: The Buildings on the north side of Wade’s Passage, viewed from the High Street, c.1830. From Mainwaring’s Annals Back Cover Illustration: Roland Symons has sent us illustrations of the Chapman arms seen by him on journeys elsewhere – (left) the arms from a window in a slype in Chester Cathedral, over a St.Christopher window. This window was donated c.1927 by the Chapman family of Ipswich. (right) a shield from a Chapman war memorial at Eton College.