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Abberley House, John Cripps, and Corinium Museum blue plaque

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Abberley House, John Cripps, and Corinium Museum blue plaque
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This blue commemorative plaque records: Abberley House & Corinium Museum Built by John Cripps as a town house C.1765. Later used by the YMCA. Purchased in 1936 by the Bathurst and Cripps families and given to Cirencester Urban District Council to house the Corinium Museum, removed from Tetbury Road. In 1938 a purpose-built single-storey museum building was opened in the garden at the rear to house the Bathurst and Cripps collections of local antiquities. Recorded plaque organisation: Cirencester Civic Society.

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