Plaques numbers 37,38,39,40 can all be found at this location.
The Young Gallery
This plaque can be found half way along Chipper Lane, on the same side as the Post Office at first floor level.
The O/S grid position is SU 14429 East 30153 North.
The Young Gallery
Edwin Young was a Victorian man of gentle and quiet disposition who bequeathed in 1913 funds to Salisbury Corporation to build an art gallery. Three properties and a piece of land were also left as an endowment for the running and maintenance of the gallery. Young left his art collection and paintings, oils, watercolours, and drawings by his own hand to be shown throughout the year in the new gallery. The gallery was build adjacent to the old Carnegie Library in Chipper Lane. In 1975 the gallery moved with the library to the new build site; the former Salisbury Market Railway terminal. See Salisbury Market railway.
The Edwin Young Gallery
This plaque can be found half way along Chipper Lane, on the same side as the post office.
The O/S grid position is SU 14429 East 30153 North.
This gallery was built AD 1913 and presented by Edwin Young citizen of Salisbury to the mayor and corporation together with upwards of 300 original drawings by the donor of picturesque buildings and places of original charm in the neighbourhood of Salisbury to form the nucleus of an art collection and make free to the city by an accompanying endowment.
The Edwin Young Collection is managed by the Edwin Young Trust, of which Wiltshire Council is the sole trustee. On the trustee's behalf, the collection is looked after by an Art Curator, currently (2013) Peter Riley, employed by Wiltshire Council, supported by the Wiltshire Council Museums Service. The collection comprises approximately 500 watercolours; drawings and unfinished works of art, almost all executed by Edwin Young. Edwin Young was a competent and prolific Victorian water-colourist - the best of his work being fine examples of the genre. The collection provides an important source of topographical and social historical content, illustrating Salisbury and its environs from the middle of the Nineteenth Century through to the period just prior to the First World War.
Charles John Woodrow
This plaque can be found half way along Chipper Lane, on the same side as the Post Office.
The O/S grid position is SU 14426 East 30154 North.
This stone was laid on November 4th 1904 by Charles John Woodrow, Mayor of Salisbury
Brewer, Smith and Brewer
This plaque can be found half way along Chipper Lane, on the same side as the Post Office.
The O/S grid position is SU 14429 East 30155 North.
This stone was laid to mark the restoration and extension of the former Salisbury library.
Brewer, Smith and Brewer
Chartered Architects
June 1989
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