The Topshop Mural

High Street

Another mural this time in the middle of the High Street. No 229 appears to be an old building but in fact was built after the original old Jacobean shop was torn down in 1930 by the Saxone Shoe Company and sold to an American museum. The front facade has two Tudor style windows salvaged from a house that was demolished in North Street. The high Street widens at this point and a long row of 1950s style buildings continues up to Eastgate.

The side of No 229 was a blank, cement rendered wall for many years until the City Council commissioned in 1991 a local artist to produce a mural to fill the space.

He created this Tudor house and balcony with the figures of Sir Thomas Bodley, Nicholas Hilliard and Princess Henrietta.