the Wall, about 2'20 (i.e. 2 chains 20 feet), to the south-west angle of the Garden belonging to the Grammar School (at 11). Here we leave the Parish of St, Botolph, and join that of St. Nicholas. We now turn again to the right and proceed in a northerly direction and in a right line, about 1'50 (i.e. 1 chain 50 feet), to Culver Lane (at 12) taking in the whole of the premises belonging to the Grammar School.
From the north-west angle of the School (at 12) we cross the Lane, and the Wall into the Yard belonging to the Sea Horse Public House, and leaving the Stable and Brewhouse to the right, and another building to the left, we pass on in a strait line to the House ..... "
(William Cole's Survey of All Saints' Parish, 1794.) `
Fig. 3. WESTONS IN 1794
Westons (with garden to south) shown black. The numbers 7-14 indicate stations in the perambulation.
(From the original in the possession of Colchester and Essex Museum. By permission.)
1833
" All that capital messuage or tenement, then and for many years past called Weston's, situate in the parish of All Saints, in Colchester, in Culver Street, and abutting on that street towards the north, on certain messuages or tenements, and gardens belonging to the Blue School Charity towards the east, and on a messuage, called the Cross Keys, towards the west, as the said capital messuage had, ever since the foundation of the said Free Grammar-School, been used as the school-house of the said school, and the residence of the master thereof."
- (Indentures of lease and release, 10 and ll November, 1833.)
1853
" COLCHESTER. Sale of the old Grammar School. On Wednesday the old Grammar School-house and premises, in Culver Street, with a frontage of 79 feet, were offered to public competition by Messrs. Cook, at the Cups Hotel, when, after a spirited bidding by the company present, the property (freehold) was knocked down to J. S. Barnes, Esq., at £540, for Mr. William Sherman, coach builder of East Street, who, we understand, intends converting the premises into a carriage manufactory."
- (Essex Standard, 6 May, 1853.)
