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A walk around a rainy Sherborne in Dorset.

This was the Sunday that had heavy rain at the end of April 2012.

A few days after my visit The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the town as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits to towns and cities around the country.

Sherborne was the nearest town to our holiday cottage in Dorset.

Sherborne is an abbey town.

St Johns Building on the corner of The Parade, South Street and Half Moon Street in Sherborne.

It is Grade II listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-103929-saints-john-building-the-parade-comprisi" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Saints John Building (the Parade) Comprising No 92 Cheap Street (premises Occupied by Senior and Goo, Sherborne</a>

CHEAP STREET 1. 1625 (South West Side) Saints John Building (The Parade) comprising ST 6316 1/216A 30.ll.71. No 92 Cheap Street (Premises occupied by Senior and Goodwin) (Formerly listed under Church Lane) - and premises occupied by R E Bath Travel Service II GV 2. 1894. 3 storeys. Ashlar. Stringcourses. Mullioned windows. Carved emblems of Saints John the Baptist and Evangelist on north and south fronts respectively. Cheap Street front has in northernmost bay transomed and mullioned windows on ground and 1st floors; in 2nd and 3rd bays, larger 4-light window on 1st floor with small gables over. On ground floor, wide windows with pointed heads. In 4th bay, 4 centred headed doorway with panelled spandrels and moulded architrave frame. Corner window of 2-lights in 3-tiers. South front has a larger gable at east end, with 6-light 2-tiel window 2nd floor with carved emblem of Saint John the Evangelist below. External chimney with 2 offsets to left hand. On ground floor, a narrow 4-centred headed window and a 4-centred headed moulded doorway with date carved spandrels; dripmould. Premises occupied by R E Bath Travel Service: On lst floor, from right to left hand end, small 2-light window, each light with 4-centred head. 5-light 2-tier window, surmounted by a shaped gable; 5-light bay window on ground and lst floors with easternmost light splayed. Small 3-light mullioned window with pointed gable over. On ground floor, to east of 2-storey bay, a window and a 4 -centred doorway with carved spandrels, architrave frame and dripmould. Premises extend into Half Moon Street.

No 88, The Conduit, No 90, Saints John Building form a group with Bow House, The Cemetery Gate, The Abbey Gate House, No 2 including premises occupied by Gilham Bros, No 3 including premises occupied by Gilham Bros, Church Lane. Also forms a group with the Former Church House, Half Moon Street.

Listing NGR: ST6388916500

Now the Research Centre for the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society.