Market Street is a shopping street in central

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. It runs between Market Hill, location of the city's central Market Square to the west and Sidney Street to the east. On the other side of the market square, the street continues west as St Mary's Street north of Great St Mary's, the

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church. On the other side of Sidney Street is Hobson's Passage leading east to

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. To the north is Market Passage and to the south is

Petty Cury Petty Cury is a pedestrianised shopping street in central Cambridge, England.Petty Cury
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, a pedestrianised shopping street.

Buildings

Holy Trinity Church, built c1400 in the

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, is at the eastern end of the street on the south corner with Sidney Street. ''Henry Martyn Hall'' is a building named after the priest and missionary

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. It was designed by the Arts and Crafts architect

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(1857–1932, a pupil of

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), and built in 1885–87. The ground floor has been converted for commercial use. ''Radcliffe Court'', a set of residential apartments above a series of ground floor shops overlooking Market Square, was completed in 1964 to a design of the architect Stanley R. Nevell & Partners.Stanley R. NevellCambridge 2000

References

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