Plaque number 18 can be found at this location.
The wooden plaque is at the first floor level on the building opposite the Poultry Cross on the corner of Silver Street and Minster Street.
The O/S grid position is SU 14376 East 29955 North.
The plaque can be seen in the photograph below, on the Minster Street side of the building.
This house built in 1428
was bequeathed to
the hospital of the holy trinity
by
John Wynchestre (Barber) A.D.1447
restored in 1912
Purchased By Joseph Powney A.D.1927
In 1458 John Wynchestre, a barber, left his house, described as the corner tenement opposite the "Pultricros" (see plaque 14), to the Trinity Hospital after the death of his wife Agnes on condition that "the Master and Brothers of the said Hospital should hold his obit [Mass for the dead] for his soul and for the soul of Agnes his wife on Friday in the first week of Lent in the Church of St. Thomas the Martyr, when they should pay to the priest and the poor in that Church xx pence to be equally divided amongst them, and also to the wardens of the Fraternity of Barbers in the same city for their lights xii pence".
Joseph Powney, whose name is legible in the text on the plaque, was a bootmaker. His business was at the building in 1925 (when it was called "ye olde corner shoppe") until 1954 when the site was taken over by the shoe retailers Lotus and Delta.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) report on Salisbury 1980
Kelly’s Directory for Salisbury 1925 - 1974
The ancient trade guilds and companies of Salisbury - Charles Haskins - Bennett 1912
Endless Street - John Chandler, Hobnob Press 1983
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