Church Street
Drawing and text by kind permission of Jim Bates.

These shops are post-Victorian being built in 1906 but they carry on a tradition of reaction to the restraint of Georgian architects and turned to the style of the Flemish Renaissance.

The freestone gables are the most striking features of the facades with richly carved swags, mouldings, arches and pinnacles. Heraldic beasts, griffins on either side and lions in the centre, support the central windows.