page_title: Wisbech
section_title: Notable buildings and monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Wisbech / Notable buildings and monuments
caption_attribution_description: Wisbech Old Market, looking north-east up Chapel Road. The Octagon Chapel, opened in 1831, was demolished in 1952. "The principal trade in Wisbeach is that of corn, and the corn-market in this place is one of the most important in the country, there being about 120,000 quarters of corn annually shipped here for Lynn, Cambridge, and other places; this is grown in the neighbourhood, the amount having very much increased of late years by the recent inventions in agriculture; much of the land, which was formerly covered with fens, having thus been lately recovered."
context_page_description: Wisbech is a market town and civil parish in the Fens of the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
  It had a population of 31,573 in 2011. The town lies in the far north-east of the county, bordering Norfolk and only 5 miles south of Lincolnshire. The tidal River Nene running through the town centre is spanned by two bridges. Before the Local Government Act 1972 came into force in 1974 Wisbech was a municipal borough.
context_section_description: Wisbech has over 250 listed buildings and monuments
  Wisbech Castle and grounds leased by Wisbech Town Council from Cambridgeshire County Council.
  Former New Inn, Union St dating to about 1500.
  Rose and Crown hotel, located on the market place, is an early 17th century coaching inn. A date of 1601 and trumpet and pheasant are visible on the exterior of the building. It is listed grade II* by Historic England.
  Peckover House (1722); owned by the National Trust; in its grounds are the remains of the white cross.
  Ely House, an early 18th century farmhouse. A grade II listed building.
  The Angles Theatre, a typical Georgian playhouse built in 1791. Grade II listed.
  Wisbech General Cemetery contains an old chapel (recently restored by The Wisbech Society and formally opened in April 2019) and 11 Commonwealth war graves. It is an early nonconformist cemetery now no longer in use, and is a pocket park.
  Thomas Clarkson Memorial, Bridge St (1881)
  Mill Tower formerly known as Leach's Mill, located on Lynn Road, is remarkable on account of its height and age. Built on a mound and eight storeys in height, it had eight sails. It dates to at least 1778, although the initials SH and 1643 are reputed to have been on a beam inside the mill. The last miller used it in the 1930s. The adjoining flour and provender roller mill suffered a fire in the 1970s. The mill minus the sails is now used as a residence. None of the other dozen or so mills survive.
  Richard Young MP Memorial (1871) sited in Wisbech Park (1870).
  Drinking fountain erected to the memory of Mr & Mrs G. D. Collins in the Old Market in 1897. Relocated to Lynn Road.
  Grammar School for boys, South Brink opened in January 1898 to replace the old Grammar School for boys in the ancient town hall in Hill Street.
  Parish Church of St Peter and Paul. (Restored in 1858 and a clock added in 1866). There are some pictures and a description of the church at the Cambridgeshire Churches website.
  Our Lady & Saint Charles Borromeo Church(1854)
  St Mary's Parish church, also on the Cambridgeshire Churches website.
  Octavia Hill's Birthplace House; the family later moved to London.
  Wisbech & Fenland Museum (1847); extensive collections of local records and other items. Notable artifacts include: Napoleon's Sèvres breakfast service, said to have been captured at the Battle of Waterloo; Thomas Clarkson's chest, containing examples of 18th century African textiles, seeds and leatherwork which he used to illustrate his case for direct trade with Africa; and the original manuscript of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
  Elgood's Brewery;  The brewery was founded in 1795 and bought soon afterwards by the Elgood family.
caption: The Octagon Chapel in Wisbech Old Market, demolished in 1952
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