The Watford Observer is again delighted to team up with its friends at Watford Museum to look at some structures or objects from the town’s past that have either disappeared or been relocated.
This week we recall a stone structure that stood in Watford that was once part of a house dating back to at least the 1600s.
The museum’s volunteer archivist Christine Orchard said: “The Lecturer's House - or more accurately the porch of this house - used, until the mid-1960s, to stand between the town side of King Street and Market Street. The house it belonged to had been demolished in the 1820s.
“Prior to this the house had been the home of the Lecturer who originally preached a sermon on market days in the Market Place.
“In 1613, Dorothy, Lady Morrison of Cassiobury, leased the house when she set up a charity to provide a home for the Lecturer. At this time it was known as Watford Place, the first of three buildings to bear this name.”
Watford Museum is closed tomorrow (Friday) but open on Saturday, from 10am to 5pm.
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