Farnham in 50 Buildings

Farnham in 50 Buildings

Cirencester in 50 Buildings

Cirencester in 50 Buildings

Frome in 50 Buildings

Series: In 50 Buildings

Publication Date15th February 2024

Book FormatPaperback

pages96

Illustrations100

Height234

Width165

Discover the history and character of the Somerset town of Frome in this enriching tour of fifty of its buildings and landmarks.
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ISBN
9781445692319

Situated at the eastern end of the Mendip Hills, the Somerset market town of Frome has a wealth of history, much of which lies waiting to be discovered among the architectural gems that line its scenic streets. Founded by the monk St Aldhelm in approximately AD 685, the town sits on a hillside with many springs where Aldhelm built a minster church, which became the site of St John’s Church.


Frome had three mills and a fair reported in the Domesday Book, but it grew with the development of the cloth trade. By the end of the seventeenth century, a new town was built for the cloth workers on the woad fields and the population increased rapidly until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Major industries were developed during the nineteenth century, which sustained the economy of the town, such as a brass foundry, supplies to the gas industry and printing.


Frome has the most listed buildings of any town in Somerset and is particularly renowned for the quality of its Nonconformist chapels and eighteenth-century vernacular buildings. In this book, author Alastair MacLeay highlights fifty of the town’s finest buildings and structures from the fifteenth through to the twentieth centuries. Frome in 50 Buildings presents a fascinating look at the buildings and architectural styles from across the ages to reveal the history, economic and civil development of the town. The stories behind the inns, chapels, industrial buildings, schools and houses offer an intriguing and remarkable insight into the town’s heritage.

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