ROW NINETY TWO[1]
Carrington's Row 1776*2
Hurry's Row, 1798 *2
Old Meeting North Row*2
From South Quay to Middlegate Street.
For traces of the thirteenth
century Greyfriars Church, pass into the passage midway on the
south side, and there on the north
walls of row 96, property could in 1927 be seen interesting relics. There were
two carved stone arches of windows, and a bricked up entrance. The fine mansion, nos.
13 and 14, was erected about
1776 at the south‑west corner, and the house at the north‑west
corner demanded attention
as an example of the lofty
residences existing along the Quay. *2
This row was
formed through the precincts
of the convent of the
Greyfriars in pursuance of the
condition already made, by the corporation on the sale by them of the property
in 1659.*1
The house at the south‑west corner
fronting The Quay, now divided
into two occupations, 13 and 14, was built about the
year 1776 by
Thomas Kerrington, who had leave
to bring out the front to the present line, all the houses on this
part of the quay having
stood originally some feet further back. It was for many years the
property of James Hurry Esq. This fine
Georgian house is shown in a drawing opposite page 129, P.P., vol.II. The space between rows 92 and row 96, facing
Middlegate was occupied by a chapel
belonging to the Unitarians,
erected in 1845,
from a design in modern gothic,
by Hilling. It stood upon the site of
the old meeting hall previously
mentioned, which was erected
upon what had been the artillery yard, and previously formed a part of the
precincts of the greyfriars.
The 1936 row survey
says ‑ In an alley off the south
side of this row is a considerable
length of wall, 30‑35 feet long,
of about 18‑20 feet high, which
is medieval, and is the south boundary
of the Franciscan buildings. In this wall are fragmentary remains of
stone windows, of
tracery and cusped, in the
manner of mid‑fourteenth century masonry. There are several (3)
buttresses supporting the wall, of contemporary date. In row 92 also
is a good house on the
north side set
back in its own courtyard. A building
the front of
which appears to
date from the middle of the
18th.century. The walls and roof
appear sound, and the sash windows are divided by thick
sash bars that suggest an earlier date. Bombs fell on
row 92 on July 7th.1941 during a concentrated attack which lasted some three hours,
from 1a.m. to 4.15. Most of this row was destroyed. (ref. Harry Codd, diary,
vol.IV, p.3.)
The Occupants, Row Ninety
Two, 1886
( from Middlegate Street
to South Quay)
Chapman, Miss E.
Quinton, J., sailmaker
Chase,
G., shoemaker
Mayhew, J.,
Pillar, F., sweet seller
Gage, Mrs.H., infant
school
Daines, J.,
George, J., county court
bailiff
Poxon, G., bricklayer
Duley, F.J., fish office
Bryanton, M.A.
Norton, E., ship carpenter
Massey, J., tailor
Misson, W.
Parsons, B., fish curer
Unitarian School -
mistress- Tibnam, Mrs.E.
The Occupants, Row Ninety
Two, 1913
( from Middlegate Street
to South Quay)
south side
1. Buck, William Charles
2. Harvey, Joshua
3. Mann, Henry Arthur
4. Dyble, Thomas
6. Boulton, Frederick
Swann
7. Spurgeon, Mrs
8. Grimble, Mrs
9. Childs, Mrs
north side
10. Skipper, Jonathan
11. Smith, John
12. Thompson, Joseph
13. Mayhew, Mrs
14. Brown, William
Rose, William Samuel,
blacksmith