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Black plaque № 55780

Hinckley, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

Black plaque № 55780

St Peter’s Court In 1825 St Peter’s Catholic Church was built here beside a Dominican Priory founded the previous year. The church was demolished in 1976 after being used as a school and a nursing home. The Priory building was demolished in 2000. The ghost of Margaret Chatterton is believed to have

haunted the Priory and Joseph Aloysius Hansom inventor of the Hansom Cab and the romantic novelist Charlotte Mary Brame were members of the church.

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