A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



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 ]y opposite Lombard H' 

 plastered brick mid- 1 7th-ccntury house, 

 cottages, with a recessed gabled centre an 

 jecting wings crowned by bold modillion c 



'The Walnuts,' on the south side of Castle Street, 

 is a two-storied 17th-century house, the walls par- 

 geted in plain panels. In Peg's Lane, so named from 

 a W. Pegg who first built there, is a row of framed 

 and weather-boarded cottages of the 18th century. 

 The house attached to the brewery in West Street, 

 as the continuation of Castle Street is called, bears 

 the date on a brick panel 1719, above which are the 

 initials c.i.c. On the south side of West Street is 

 Bridgeman House, a brick building of the first half of 

 the 17th century, two stories in height, with a tiled 

 hipped roof and a large square panelled central stack. 

 The elaborately framed and panelled front door is of 

 original date. The house is now converted into cot- 

 tages. A door belonging to the premises at the rear 

 of the yard next to no. I 7 on the north side of Castle 

 Street bears the date 1 654. In Parliament Row, said 

 to be so named from having been occupied by the 

 members of the Court at the time of the Plague, are 

 three plastered half-timbered cottages of the early 

 17th century. The ' W.iggon and Horses' on the 

 east side of Old Cross is a plastered two-storied build- 

 ing, probably of the early 17th century. No. 6 

 St. Andrews Street is : 

 of brick and timber re 

 tury. A chimney stack : 

 chimney shafts of brick, 

 panelled, is the only d< 

 date. 



eastward, is a plainer house of the same type and 



date. 



The Roman Catholic church, built ini86o, 10 itand* 

 in St. John's Street near the Lea. The Congrega- 

 tional chapel in Cowbridge represents a congregation 

 dating from 1673," but the present building (suc- 

 ceeding one on the same site) dales only from 1 861." 

 The Baptist chapel, at the junction of the North and 

 Hertingfordbury roads, was built in 1841, and the 

 Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the Ware Road in 

 1865. 13 Quakers are found in Hertford from an early 

 date, 11 and though much diminished in numbers have 

 a meeting-house in Railway Street at the present day. 



The old county gaol, now superseded by the prison 

 at St. Albans, stood on the south side of the Ware 

 road. At the end of the 12th century there was 

 a gaol at Hertford, entries for the repair of which 

 appear on the Pipe Rolls, 15 but in 1 125 a mandate 

 was issued to the sheriff to build a new gaol there." 

 This, however, also seems to have fallen into disuse, for 

 in 1 Z90 the inhabitants of Hertfordshire petitioned for 

 a prison in Hertford, 17 and licence was granted to them 



16th-century building 

 : in the early 18th cen- 

 lOuntcd by two octagonal 

 ■ of which is elaborately 

 remaining of the earlier 

 At the north-east of St. Andrew's churchyard 

 is a good early 17th-century cottage of brick and half- 

 timber with an oversailing upper story. Opposite the 

 church is a mid- 1 8th-century house with a door-case 

 in the Gothic taste of the Batty Langley school. On 

 the same side of the road a little distance to the east of 

 the church is a very fine brick house of the tint quarter 

 of the 18th century, three stories in height, now 

 occupied by the Hertfordshire Imperial Yeomanry. 

 Between the second and third stories is an entablature 

 of gauged and moulded brickwork supported at either 

 end of the elevation by Ionic pilasters. The central 

 doorway and the window of the first floor immediately 

 over arc accentuated by entablatures and curved 

 pediments supported by small pilasters of the same 

 order. On the south side of the road, a little further 



the present corn exchange. 2 " At the beginning of 

 the 1 8th century many complaints were made of its 

 insanitary state and of the prevalence of gaol fever 

 there. 51 After the Act of 1700 s3 a proposal was 

 made for the erection of a new building," but the 

 old one was patched up for the time being, 2 * and it 

 was not until more than fifty years later that the 

 work was actually begun. 56 The borough prison, 



which had up to that time c 

 Back Street, was then amalgam 

 It is impossible to suggest 

 town of Hertford was first 

 important council was held 



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itford,' which 

 Hertford. The c 

 Archbishop of Can 

 East Angles ; there 

 York and other great churchmi 

 synod of the united English Ch 

 various important matters, such a 

 the status of the bishops, marria 

 other points 



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, Bishop of the 

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 It was the first 

 :h, and dealt with 

 he date of Easter, 

 and divorce, and 

 Hei 



ford, however, first undoubtedly appears in history 



1 Tooke of Hertfop 



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 Heoruiford is capable of other develop- 

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 in the 1 nh century, and although in this 



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