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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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deeds only deal with a part of the house, for we learn fromthe Charity Commissioners Report of 1827 that one Hugh Smithin 1637 left part of the Broadwell House, i.e. three tenements, to the parish, the rents thereof to be spent by the churchwardens onthe poor. This property having fallen into decay, it was let toCharles Vizard, who, in 1821, erected on the site a substantialbuilding. Thus part of the Religious Building has returned to the benefit of the parish. Smythe, 1639, says : heere (in Dursley)also is a place which to this day is called the Nunnery. He doesnot say exactly where, but, probably, he means the BroadwellHouse, for there is no other building in Dursley at all likely to havebeen a nunnery. We know the site of the old almhouses, the churchhouse and the chantry buildings. Annexed is a plan of thehouses near the Broadwell, now called Bowers Court. At (a) Plate TI. are the steps leading up to the church ; (b) is amodern schoolmasters house, but I have been told by an old man
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KOTES l)X MEDI.5iVAL DuRSLEY. 17 that the old house which stood there had windows of the samestyle as those in the wall of (e) ; (c) is the modern entry, orcovered way ; fd) the ancient entry into the court, now brickedup. Old people have told me that, originally, there were twocottages where (c) now is, and that their doors opened into(c/), the ancient entrance, or covered way. Might not these havebeen once the doorkeepers lodge and (d) the doorway into thebuilding is the well inside the court, which seems unnecessaryunless the occupants of St Marys House were cut off from theworld, for the Broad well was close by ; (e) is the oldest part ofthe building now standing, mentioned in the deeds of 1610, &c.,and now the Broadwell Tavern ; (f) \^ an entrance to SilverStreet; (g) an alley to a back part of the court where there isalso a covered passage ; (Ji) is the site of the cottages bequeathedby Hugh Smith to the parish. It will strike anyone that the houses are built round a court,a

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