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Queen Anne's Walk
Queen Anne's Walk (formerly The Mercantile Exchange) is a grade I listed building in the town of Barnstaple, North Devon, completed in 1713 as a meeting place for the town's merchants. It is believed to have been designed by the architect William Talman, on the basis of its similarity to his work at the Hall in Drayton, Northamptonshire.〔Pevsner, p.153〕 It was promoted and financed by the thirteen members of the Corporation of Barnstaple whose armorials are sculpted on and above the parapet,〔As stated in Latin inscription on contemporary brass tablet at east end, see below〕 and the work was overseen by Robert Incledon (1676-1758), Mayor of Barnstaple in 1712-13.〔As stated in Latin inscription on contemporary brass tablet at east end, see below〕 It has been owned for many decades by North Devon District Council, which currently (2014) leases it to Barnstaple Town Council, which in turn uses it as the "Barnstaple Heritage Centre" a tourist information centre.
==Location & function==
The building is situated at the bottom of Cross Street on the bank of the River Taw, and looked onto Barnstaple Quay, ("New Quay" after the 1870s),〔Wood, J., 1843, Plan of the Town of Barnstaple from Actual Survey (Cartographic): A town plan of 1843 shows Queen Anne's Walk fronting directly onto Barnstaple Quay (before New Quay was built in the 1870s)(Quoted by Heritage Gateway)〕 (now filled in) at which most of the sea-trade of the formerly important port of Barnstaple would arrive and depart. Here cargoes shipped from around the world, including notably tobacco from the North American colonies, would arrive and be sold to awaiting Barnstaple merchants, who were accustomed to seal deals by touching the 17th century so-called ''Tome Stone'', a low stone circular bargaining table, with inscriptions around the rim of the names of three leading merchants, including Delbridge. In 1909 the Tome stone was moved to beneath the colonnade.〔English Heritage, 2012, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England)(Quoted by Heritage Gateway)〕
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