Original sepia print of St Cross mill and mill house, Winchester from the west, c. 1880

Photograph of St Cross mill and mill house, Winchester

Taken about 1880

The early mill on the River Itchen at Sparkford, later known as St Cross, belonged to the Hospital of St Cross and flour was ground there for the inhabitants of the Almshouse founded by Henry de Blois in the 1130s.

This image shows the south and west sides of the mill, which was rebuilt of brick with a tiled roof in 1845; additions were also made to the mill house on its west side in Victorian times. The Ray family were millers here for more than forty years in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The photograph was taken by Winchester photographer William Savage (1817-87) and is found in an album entitled 'Winchester Views of Modern Buildings'.