Abberley House
(1765-present)

place and house

Aged 259

Commemorated on 1 plaque

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.

Corinium Museum, Castle Street, Cirencester, United Kingdom where it sited