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William Gascoyne – builder

William Gascoyne – builder

William Gascoyne (1827 – 1902) – A Nineteenth Century Leamington Builder. A stonemason  by training, William Gascoyne came to dominate the building industry in late 19th Century  Royal Leamington Spa. He undertook a variety of projects, in public, commercial and...
Methodist chapels

Methodist chapels

Portland Street Wesleyan Chapel This was the original purpose built home of Methodism in Leamington. ‘The earliest Leamington Methodists went over to Warwick to worship’, by 1817 William Scott and his wife had founded a place of worship in...
Milverton churches

Milverton churches

Milverton Episcopal Chapel or Pepper Pot Chapel This chapel was built to solve the problem of those of Milverton’s parishioners who preferred not to travel to St. James, or brave the Binn’s brook to worship outside their home parish in a Leamington chapel....
Proprietary Chapels

Proprietary Chapels

Leamington Episcopal Chapel This was, in 1825, the first of the proprietary chapels or chapel of ease, built in Leamington. The chosen site across the top of the Parade, was at the opposite end of the town from the parish church and it was built on open land, which...