The Barista's Coffee Co.
9 Watergate Street, CH1 2LB
animated by: Alex Wimbush, Problem Solving Engineer at Airbus and member of Chester Theatre Club
"I didn't know that the 'God's providence...' inscription on the wall was put there because the family survived the plague!”
Alex Wimbush
The Barista’s Coffee Co. occupies what was once a very different kind of house: God’s Providence House, built by one of the few families to survive the 1647 outbreak of plague in Chester! Thankful for being spared, they inscribed, “God’s Providence is mine inheritance” above the door. The words inspired the novel God's Providence House: A Story of 1791 by Victorian novelist Isabella Banks.