Editing Wisbech (section)

=== Notable buildings and monuments ===
[[File:28 and 29 Old Market, Wisbech (geograph 5748361).jpg|thumb|27-30 Old Market|alt=row of houses on Old Market, from 27 to 30]]
Wisbech is particularly noted for its fine examples of Georgian architecture. It has over 250 listed buildings and monuments, concentrated mainly along the river and known as [[The Brinks]] (North and South Brinks), and around the Old Market, Market Place and the circus around [[Wisbech Castle|The Castle]] known as [[The Crescent, Wisbech|The Crescent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/england/wisbech-fenland-cambridgeshire|title=Wisbech|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|access-date=29 August 2019}}</ref> These include:

==== Georgian ====
*[[Peckover House and Garden|Peckover House]] (1722), North Brink, owned by the [[National Trust]]; in its grounds are the remains of the White Cross of The Low.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1331633|desc=Remains of White Cross in garden of Number 15 (Peckover House)|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref>
*[[Octavia Hill]] Birthplace House (formerly Bank House), South Brink.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Monger|first=Garry|date=June 2018|title=The Manea Colony Dig|url=https://issuu.com/thefensmagazine/docs/thefenswisbechjune2018_lowres|magazine=The fens: Wisbech & Surrounding|publisher=Natasha Shiels|issue=3|page=18|access-date=2 February 2020}}</ref>
*[[Wisbech Castle|The Castle]] - a Regency Period villa (1816) built on the site of a Norman castle. 
*Former New Inn, Union St dating to about 1500.<ref name="Pugh1953">{{cite book|editor-last=Pugh|editor-first=R. B.|year=1953|title=The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and The Isle of Ely, Vol. IV |place=London|publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1279266|desc=Tallow Court|access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
*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]].
*[[Elgood's Brewery]], The brewery was founded in 1795 and bought soon afterwards by the Elgood family.[[File:Elgoods-brewery-wisbech.jpg|thumb|Elgoods Brewery on North Brink in Wisbech]]
*Ely House, an early 18th century farmhouse. A grade II listed building.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1331636|desc=Ely House|access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref>
*The [[Angles Theatre]], a typical Georgian playhouse built c1790 owned by [[Thomas Shaftoe Robertson|Thomas Shaftoe Robinson]]. Grade II listed.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Angles Theatre|num=1125904|access-date=5 October 2021}}</ref> Acknowledged as the eighth oldest working theatre in England.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.anglestheatre.co.uk/history.html|access-date=2021-07-06|website=www.anglestheatre.co.uk}}</ref>
*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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Stevens|title=Cambridgeshire Windmills and Watermills|publisher=Cambridgeshire Wind and Watermill Society|year=1985}}</ref>
[[File:Wisbech-clarkson-memorial--.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|The [[Clarkson Memorial]] in Wisbech in 2013, in memory of the [[abolitionist]] [[Thomas Clarkson]]]]

==== Victorian ====
*[[Wisbech & Fenland Museum]] (1847); extensive collections of local records and other items. Notable artefacts include: [[Napoleon]]'s [[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|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]]''<ref>{{cite book|title=An Illustrated Guide to Wisbech St Peter and neighbourhood|author= T W Foster|publisher= TV Sumfield|year= 1867}}</ref>
*Thomas [[Clarkson Memorial]], Bridge St (1881)
*[[Richard Young (MP)|Richard Young]] MP Memorial (1871) sited in Wisbech Park (1870).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cambstimes.co.uk/cambridgeshire-life/letters/richard-young-memorial-started-life-as-a-drinking-fountain-1-1705221|title=Richard Young Memorial started life as a drinking fountain.|first=Elaine|last=King|website=Cambstimes.co.uk|date=22 November 2012|access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref>
*Drinking fountain erected to the memory of Mr & Mrs G. D. Collins in the Old Market in 1897. Relocated to Lynn Road.<ref name="History of Wisbech and Neighborhood" />
*former 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.
*[[Our Lady & Saint Charles Borromeo Church]] (1854)

==== Church architecture ====
Wisbech and its surrounding villages also boast some interesting church architecture.

* [[St Peter and St Paul's Church, Wisbech|Parish Church of St Peter and Paul]] (restored in 1858 and a clock added in 1866)<ref>{{cite web|title=Cambridgeshire Churches|url=http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/wisbechpeter.htm|access-date=18 August 2018|website=Druidic.org}}</ref>
* [[Guyhirn Chapel of Ease]]
*Wisbech St Mary's Parish church<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101161226-church-of-st-mary-wisbech-st-mary|title=Church of St Mary, Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire|website=Britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/wisbechmary.htm|title=Cambridgeshire Churches|website=Druidic.org|access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref>

[[File:ECR(1851) p68b - (Wisbech) Corn Market.jpg|thumb|The Octagon Chapel in Wisbech Old Market, demolished in 1952]]