St Mary Street

North End

For the purposes of this website, we have split St Mary Street into two sections.  The Bottom or North End covers the length of the street from the junction with Horseshoe Lane down to its junction with The Plain and St John Street.

There were a large number of small houses in this end of the street which were used as almshouses for the poor people of Thornbury and most of these buildings have now disappeared.  Click on the link on the left to read about the Almshouses.

There were also a number of more impressive town houses.  Two of the most noteable buildings were Warwick House at 27 St Mary Street, the home of the Burchell family and later the Hawkins family, and the house which was  used as a grocer shop for many years by the Clutterbuck family and for a short time as Thornbury's first Roman Catholic Church.  Both these buildings were demolished as part of the Town Centre re-development in the late 1960's.

We are fortunate however that a few very old buildings have been saved.  These include the Malthouse, used for many years by Green and Burton for the sale and repair of electrical appliances,  The Plough public house at 3 St Mary Street, the building known for many years as the Church Institute at 11 St Mary Street, the Town Trust's 'almshouses' at 15/17 St Mary Street and the two buildings normally associated with the Eyles and King families at 21 and 23 St Mary Street.

This page was last updated: 18/11/2011