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The site of the War Memorial in Bridge Street was formerly the site of the medieval Priory of St John the
Baptist.
1678 (3 Mar) Leese by John Butler Isaac Field the elder and John Norris to John Pinnock for 2000 years, at a yearly rent of one peppercorn.
1899 (10 May) Thomas Smith Hewer, Selina Mary Cundell Widow and William Frederick Hewer sold remainging lease to The International Tea Company's Stores Limited.
International Stores closed in Bridge Street at the end of the First World War, and this was the site chosen for Hungerford's War Memorial.
1920 (7 Apr) The International Tea Company's Stores Limited sold the remaining lease for £500 to Trustees of the War Memorial Charity (Louis Henry
Beard Coal Merchant, Thoms Walter Alexander Grocer, Richard Henry Barker Doctor of Medicine, John Holmes Wooldridge Builder, John Corderoy Adnams Corn Merchant, George Edmund Platt Gentleman,
Joseph Alexander Corn Merchant, William Edward Thomas Seccombe Gray m.a. Vicar of Hungerford, Alfred Edward Allright Draper, James Newhook retired Schoolmaster, Arthur John
Killick Grocer, and Osmond Richens Farmer, all of Hungerford in the County of Berks).
See also: Hungerford War Memorial Charity for the full text, or follow this link to see the photocopy of the Hungerford War Memorial Charity indenture.
The property was described as: "All that the little barn situate and being on the East side of the highway at the lower end of the Town of Hungerford in the County
of Berks between the two rivers commonly called or known by the name of Little Chappell Barn
together with all the Barton or backside next adjoining thereto with all that plot or parcel of ground whereon the Great Barn called the Great Chappel Barn then stood".
The resulting redevelopment enabled significant widening of the previously narrow Bridge Street.
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