Photograph of 1-3 College Street, Winchester
Taken 3rd November 1935
Demolition of Laverty's antique and reproduction furniture showrooms is well under way, with rubble piled up behind the remaining frontage. The work transforms the junction of College Street and Kingsgate Street, revealing the south side of the east end of St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Church set above the fourteenth century gateway, the only one of the city's gateway churches to survive. Beside it can be seen the rear of 1 and 2 St Swithun Street which were occupied by a Miss Travis and a Miss Dover respectively in 1934. The two houses have Georgian frontages, but the backs in College Street show sixteenth and seventeenth century work, with an elegant Venetian window and tile hanging at number one. To the right of that are the gables of the fifteenth century Cheyney Court, formerly the courthouse for the Bishop's Court, but in the mid 1930s the residence of the academic, author and churchman, Reverend Canon Leonard Hodgson.
The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer F B Heathcote Wride.
