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Strange & Armory Almshouses, Bridge Plats Way, Londonderry, Bideford (new build)
St Catherine's Almshouses and Chapel, Catherine Street,
Exeter (ruins - founded by Canon John Stevens DD Doctor of Physick in 1457 to house 13 poor men)
Mary Parminter Charity, Point in View, Summer Lane
Exmouth
Thorner's Homes, Southampton: founded by Robert Thorner in his Will of 1690, the first almshouses opened in 1793, after much arguing with the trustees of the time, over other gifts in his Will, such as to Harvard College. The charity houses poor widows and single women of limited financial means over 55 years of age.[32]
Hospital of St Cross, Winchester: said to be the oldest charitable institution in England. Founded by
Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, in 1136. Home for 25 elderly men, known as Brothers, under a Master. They belong to the Order of the Hospital of St Cross founded c.1132 and wear black trencher hats and robes with silver Jerusalem cross badge. The Order of Noble Poverty, founded 1445, wear claret trencher hats and robes with silver cardinal's badge in memory of
Cardinal Beaufort.[33]
St. Thomas's Almshouses (Pinnocks Charity),
Gravesend (founded 1624)
Trinity Court Almshouses, Aylesford
Twisleton Almshouses, Dartford
New College Almshouse,
Cobham, Kent (built 1362, founded by Sir John de Cobham, based on a medieval chantry, partly rebuilt 1598 and occupied by elderly of the parish)
Bede House (or Maison Dieu), Burton Street founded in 1640 by Robert Hudson (created a baronet by Charles II) and remodelled in 1875,
Melton Mowbray
Lyddington Bede House (originally Bishop's Palace, sold at Reformation as town house and then became a almshouse – building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
Misses Moore’s Almshouses,
Appleby Magna, built in 1839
Lord Burghley's Almshouse,
Stamford, founded 1597 to house 13 old men, one of whom was to serve as warden. Founded on site of the Medieval Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr which was founded c 1190 under Peterborough Abbey for the use of pilgrims and the poor. In disuse by the c16 when only the chapel continued in use. Bought in 1549 by William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
St Peter's Callis, Stamford
Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
The
Spalding Town Husbands, over forty properties across the town, many new-builds, run by one charitable organisation
Long Sutton Consolidated
Greater London
Barnet
Jesus Hospital is a charity administering over one hundred almshouses in the Barnet area.
Benn's Walk,
Richmond, built in 1983.[47][48] They were built on the site of Benn's Cottages, which had been developed on land endowed by William Smithet in 1727 to the charity that was then administering Michel's Almshouses.[47]
Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.[53] Most of the buildings[53] date from 1843 but the charity that built them is known to have existed in
Queen Elizabeth I's time and may have much earlier origins.[54]
Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond. Twenty almshouses, built in 1834, are Grade II* listed.[55][56][57] A later block of almshouses, built in 1851 in the same style, is listed at Grade II.[58][59]
Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II* listed.[60] The oldest almshouses were built in 1757; a further two almshouses were built in 1857.[61][48]
10–18 Manning Place, Richmond. The property was built in 1993 and was purchased in 2017 by The
Richmond Charities for use as almshouses.[62]
Michel's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.[63] The original ten almshouses were built in 1696 and were rebuilt in 1811. Another six almshouses were added in 1858.[49][47][48]
Almshouses,
Church Brampton (built in 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents, for six poor widows)
Bede House,
Higham Ferrers (built in 1423 by Archbishop Henry Chichele, for 12 men and one woman to look after them)
Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street,
Kettering (built in 1688)
Raynesford Almshouses, 1–4 Church Street,
Dallington, Northampton (founded 1673 by Richard Raynsford, a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Charles II and lived at the manor house, buried in the church,)
Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square),
Rothwell (built in 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster of the grammar school (which was on the site of the library and closed in the 1970s), for 24 Almsmen and a Principal, still an almshouse but with 2 three storey extensions built in 1830s. The original building now has four larger flats, the extensions have six small flats, there is also a Warden's house (late c18) and opposite the Matron's cottage (1840) which is rented out. The trust also owns the adjoining building, Home Farm, and the car park area outside which adjoins Market Square)
Ponder's Almshouses, possibly the row of six houses on Glendon Road, opposite Ponder Street or where the bungalows on Ponder Street are now,
Rothwell, Northamptonshire – 6 small tenements erected in or about 1714 by Thomas Ponder and three roods of land adjoining for poor widows of Rothwell
Almshouses, Wellingborough Road,
Rushden (built in 1883 in memory of Frederick Maitland Sartoris by his father)
Pickering Hospital, 6 cottages erected and endowed for support of 8 poor persons with preference for spinsters or widows Almshouses,
Titchmarsh (dating from 1756)
former Montague Hospital, Stamford Road,
Weekley (dated 1611: now a private house, used as Mr Collin's Vicarage in Keira Knightley's Film "Pride & Prejudice")
Almshouses,
Creaton (dating from 1825 and rebuilt in 1897)
The Hospital of St John Baptist and St John Evangelist (aka St John's Hospital), Bridge Street,
Northampton (founded circa 1140), sold in 1870 to a Mr Mullinger who gave it to Roman Catholic Church. Refounded 1876 at Weston Favell as a convalescent hospital and is now a restaurant.
St Thomas' Hospital Building, 74 St Giles Street,
Northampton (founded 1450), on site of what is currently the Plough Hotel, for 12 poor people. In 1654 Sir John Langham funded an additional 6 people and Richard Massingberd another 1. Building abandoned 1834, demolished in 1874 during road widening for the new cattle market and its residents moved to a new building on St Giles Street. The new almshouse with distinctive castellations and stucco 2 storey front built in 1834. In addition is plaque remembering the important charity own, and still own, the whole block above 39 St Giles Street.
1–6 Crick Road,
West Haddon (built 1870 for retired people from West Haddon)
Parson Latham's Hospital in
Oundle. Established in the 1600s by Parson Nicholas Latham. Situated on North Street in Oundle. Houses up to 14 ladies from within the Parishes of Oundle and Polebrook. 8 flats within the Grade 2 listed main building and 6 further new built bungalows in the grounds. Educational Grants are given annually to students from the Parish of Oundle and Polebrook.
Sir William Turner's Almshouses, Kirkleatham, Redcar
South Yorkshire
Hollis Hospital, Sheffield. There are four accommodation blocks: East, West, Central and North West. The four blocks were designed by Howard C Clarke and built in 1903. Each of the four blocks is a
Grade II listed building.[92][93][94][95] The east block has an inscribed slate plaque dated 1703.[93]
^Canterbury Historical & Archaeological Society (2015),
"John & Ann Smiths's Hospital", Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS), retrieved 25 November 2016. Web page cites Cantacuzino (1970) and Ingram Hill (2004) as the sources.
^Friern Barnet: Charities for the poor.A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1980. British History Online. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
^
abOrr, Stephen.
"Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses". The Vineyard, Richmond: An Online History for residents, their families and friends. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
This
list contains entries that may be out of scope and need to be evaluated for removal. Please help to
clean it up by removing items that do not meet the inclusion criteria agreed upon on the
talk page.(August 2020)
Strange & Armory Almshouses, Bridge Plats Way, Londonderry, Bideford (new build)
St Catherine's Almshouses and Chapel, Catherine Street,
Exeter (ruins - founded by Canon John Stevens DD Doctor of Physick in 1457 to house 13 poor men)
Mary Parminter Charity, Point in View, Summer Lane
Exmouth
Thorner's Homes, Southampton: founded by Robert Thorner in his Will of 1690, the first almshouses opened in 1793, after much arguing with the trustees of the time, over other gifts in his Will, such as to Harvard College. The charity houses poor widows and single women of limited financial means over 55 years of age.[32]
Hospital of St Cross, Winchester: said to be the oldest charitable institution in England. Founded by
Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, in 1136. Home for 25 elderly men, known as Brothers, under a Master. They belong to the Order of the Hospital of St Cross founded c.1132 and wear black trencher hats and robes with silver Jerusalem cross badge. The Order of Noble Poverty, founded 1445, wear claret trencher hats and robes with silver cardinal's badge in memory of
Cardinal Beaufort.[33]
St. Thomas's Almshouses (Pinnocks Charity),
Gravesend (founded 1624)
Trinity Court Almshouses, Aylesford
Twisleton Almshouses, Dartford
New College Almshouse,
Cobham, Kent (built 1362, founded by Sir John de Cobham, based on a medieval chantry, partly rebuilt 1598 and occupied by elderly of the parish)
Bede House (or Maison Dieu), Burton Street founded in 1640 by Robert Hudson (created a baronet by Charles II) and remodelled in 1875,
Melton Mowbray
Lyddington Bede House (originally Bishop's Palace, sold at Reformation as town house and then became a almshouse – building open and run by English Heritage), Lyddington
Misses Moore’s Almshouses,
Appleby Magna, built in 1839
Lord Burghley's Almshouse,
Stamford, founded 1597 to house 13 old men, one of whom was to serve as warden. Founded on site of the Medieval Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Thomas the Martyr which was founded c 1190 under Peterborough Abbey for the use of pilgrims and the poor. In disuse by the c16 when only the chapel continued in use. Bought in 1549 by William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
St Peter's Callis, Stamford
Snowden's Hospital, Stamford
Truesdale's Hospital, Stamford
Williamson's Hospital, Stamford
Hopkin's Hospital, Stamford
The
Spalding Town Husbands, over forty properties across the town, many new-builds, run by one charitable organisation
Long Sutton Consolidated
Greater London
Barnet
Jesus Hospital is a charity administering over one hundred almshouses in the Barnet area.
Benn's Walk,
Richmond, built in 1983.[47][48] They were built on the site of Benn's Cottages, which had been developed on land endowed by William Smithet in 1727 to the charity that was then administering Michel's Almshouses.[47]
Church Estate Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.[53] Most of the buildings[53] date from 1843 but the charity that built them is known to have existed in
Queen Elizabeth I's time and may have much earlier origins.[54]
Hickey's Almshouses, Richmond. Twenty almshouses, built in 1834, are Grade II* listed.[55][56][57] A later block of almshouses, built in 1851 in the same style, is listed at Grade II.[58][59]
Houblon's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II* listed.[60] The oldest almshouses were built in 1757; a further two almshouses were built in 1857.[61][48]
10–18 Manning Place, Richmond. The property was built in 1993 and was purchased in 2017 by The
Richmond Charities for use as almshouses.[62]
Michel's Almshouses, Richmond; Grade II listed.[63] The original ten almshouses were built in 1696 and were rebuilt in 1811. Another six almshouses were added in 1858.[49][47][48]
Almshouses,
Church Brampton (built in 1854 by Earl Spencer in memory of his parents, for six poor widows)
Bede House,
Higham Ferrers (built in 1423 by Archbishop Henry Chichele, for 12 men and one woman to look after them)
Sawyers Almshouses, Sheep Street,
Kettering (built in 1688)
Raynesford Almshouses, 1–4 Church Street,
Dallington, Northampton (founded 1673 by Richard Raynsford, a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Charles II and lived at the manor house, buried in the church,)
Jesus Hospital, Hospital Hill (off Market Square),
Rothwell (built in 1593 by Owen Ragsdale, schoolmaster of the grammar school (which was on the site of the library and closed in the 1970s), for 24 Almsmen and a Principal, still an almshouse but with 2 three storey extensions built in 1830s. The original building now has four larger flats, the extensions have six small flats, there is also a Warden's house (late c18) and opposite the Matron's cottage (1840) which is rented out. The trust also owns the adjoining building, Home Farm, and the car park area outside which adjoins Market Square)
Ponder's Almshouses, possibly the row of six houses on Glendon Road, opposite Ponder Street or where the bungalows on Ponder Street are now,
Rothwell, Northamptonshire – 6 small tenements erected in or about 1714 by Thomas Ponder and three roods of land adjoining for poor widows of Rothwell
Almshouses, Wellingborough Road,
Rushden (built in 1883 in memory of Frederick Maitland Sartoris by his father)
Pickering Hospital, 6 cottages erected and endowed for support of 8 poor persons with preference for spinsters or widows Almshouses,
Titchmarsh (dating from 1756)
former Montague Hospital, Stamford Road,
Weekley (dated 1611: now a private house, used as Mr Collin's Vicarage in Keira Knightley's Film "Pride & Prejudice")
Almshouses,
Creaton (dating from 1825 and rebuilt in 1897)
The Hospital of St John Baptist and St John Evangelist (aka St John's Hospital), Bridge Street,
Northampton (founded circa 1140), sold in 1870 to a Mr Mullinger who gave it to Roman Catholic Church. Refounded 1876 at Weston Favell as a convalescent hospital and is now a restaurant.
St Thomas' Hospital Building, 74 St Giles Street,
Northampton (founded 1450), on site of what is currently the Plough Hotel, for 12 poor people. In 1654 Sir John Langham funded an additional 6 people and Richard Massingberd another 1. Building abandoned 1834, demolished in 1874 during road widening for the new cattle market and its residents moved to a new building on St Giles Street. The new almshouse with distinctive castellations and stucco 2 storey front built in 1834. In addition is plaque remembering the important charity own, and still own, the whole block above 39 St Giles Street.
1–6 Crick Road,
West Haddon (built 1870 for retired people from West Haddon)
Parson Latham's Hospital in
Oundle. Established in the 1600s by Parson Nicholas Latham. Situated on North Street in Oundle. Houses up to 14 ladies from within the Parishes of Oundle and Polebrook. 8 flats within the Grade 2 listed main building and 6 further new built bungalows in the grounds. Educational Grants are given annually to students from the Parish of Oundle and Polebrook.
Sir William Turner's Almshouses, Kirkleatham, Redcar
South Yorkshire
Hollis Hospital, Sheffield. There are four accommodation blocks: East, West, Central and North West. The four blocks were designed by Howard C Clarke and built in 1903. Each of the four blocks is a
Grade II listed building.[92][93][94][95] The east block has an inscribed slate plaque dated 1703.[93]
^Canterbury Historical & Archaeological Society (2015),
"John & Ann Smiths's Hospital", Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS), retrieved 25 November 2016. Web page cites Cantacuzino (1970) and Ingram Hill (2004) as the sources.
^Friern Barnet: Charities for the poor.A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6, Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey With Highgate. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1980. British History Online. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
^
abOrr, Stephen.
"Queen Elizabeth's Almshouses". The Vineyard, Richmond: An Online History for residents, their families and friends. Retrieved 2 May 2013.