Key’s Observatory [KOSS] (1864-1880), ‘The Rectory’, Stretton Sugwas was established by the Rev Henry Cooper Key at his home. He had erected a 13-ft octagonal Romsey type observatory from the Rev Edward Lyon Berthon. Key, a maker of silver-on-glass mirrors, first housed a 12-inch reflecting telescope (f10) on a portable mount in his new observatory. This was later replaced by an 18-inch reflector (f7) squeezed in to the existing building with a compact ‘Equestrian’ equatorial mount designed and built by Berthon. The observatory and contains were sold after Key’s death to the Rev Jevon James Muschamp Perry and moved to his vicarage at Alnwick, Northumberland (Haley 2020).
Webb’s Observatory (1866-1885) [WeO], Hardwicke, established by the Revd. Thomas William Webb at the rectory. Equipped with a 9-inch With reflecting telescope carried on a Berthon type equatorial mount, it was housed in a Romsey type observatory, a 12-sided wooden structure with canvas roof. After Webb’s death the instrument came into the possession of the Rev T Espin and was later sold (1938) before it was donated to the BAA [Inst. No.83] (Robinson 2006, 38&139; English 2018, 266-7).
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