It appears that in 1665 some almshouses for aged women (widows) were built there by Sir John Jacob, Knight.
These houses at Quainton are very humble abodes; other almshouses are large and beautiful buildings erected by some rich merchant, or great noble, or London City company, for a large scheme of charity.
Owing to the destruction of monasteries, which had been great benefactors to the poor and centres of vast schemes of charity, there was sore need for almshouses and other schemes for the relief of the aged and destitute.
At the top of the street on a steep knoll stand church and school and almshouses of the mellowest fifteenth-century bricks, as beautiful and structurally sound as the pious founders left them.
It was a very munificent and beneficent corporation, and erected these almshouses for thirteen poor men and the same number of poor women.
We could spend endless time in visiting the old almshouses in many parts of the country.
These almshouses were then erected and endow'd by Richard Winwood, son and heir of Right Hon'ble Sir Ralph Winwood, Bart.
The old almshouses were better homes for the aged poor, homes of rest after the struggle for existence, and harbours of refuge for the tired and weary till they embark on their last voyage.
The Whelpton Almshouses are situated in Queen Street, on its east side, being six small residences, for the reception of deserving poor persons, natives of the town.
Scrivelsby; she died childless and founded and endowed the village school and almshouses at Hemingby.
Some of the inhabitants are entitled to the benefits of the almshouses at Revesby.
The Dauntsey almshouses were also an institution associated with this benevolent merchant.
Church, almshouses and inn, all date from the same period.
The picturesque Topp almshouses and pleasant old cottages together with the charm of the natural surroundings make this village a delightful one.
The church and Court are beautifully placed above the old village and a picturesque group of almshouses line the upward way to them.
The old almshouses were founded by his descendant, Sir James, in 1665.
The Woborne Almshouses were founded about 1476, but no portion of the early buildings remain.
Thence it was removed to the vestry-room of the church, over the old almshouses in the churchyard.
The new almshouses were erected in a close, low, and unhealthy spot in Lewknor's Lane.
The Earl of Southampton granted land for five almshouses in St. Giles's in 1656.
Picture: Guild Chapel, Guild Hall, Grammar School and Almshouses] The lengthy line of the Guild Hall and the almshouses of the Guild is one of the most effective things in the town.
He was a benefactor to Campden, and built the charming group of almshouses that stand on the left-hand on the way to the church.
The remainder forms the almshouses formerly occupied by the poorer brethren of the Guild and still housing the pensioners enjoying their share of the Clopton benefactions.
He first built and endowed almshouses at Tamworth for fourteen poor men and women, with pensions for each occupant; and with a thoughtfulness becoming his vocation, he furnished them with a library.
There is also a large dining-hall, baths and washhouses, a dispensary, and almshouses for pensioners.
He had himself been educated at Tamworth, where he had doubtless seen hungry and homeless persons suffering from cleanness of teeth and the winter's rage; and the almshouses were his contribution for their relief.
The beguinages found here and there in Germany are now simply almshouses for poor spinsters, those in Holland (e.
During the 14th century, indeed, numerous new beguinages were established; but ladies of rank and wealth ceased to enter them, and they tended to become more and more mere almshouses for poor women.
The northern branch meanders through the village past an ancient row of old-time almshouses to the station, beyond which it becomes a pretty lane leading to the adjoining villages of Great and Little Wilbraham.
Christ's Hospital, as the almshouses are called, was founded in the reign of Edward VI.
The church of St. Helen's, which has a very tall spire, is close to the almshouses and the river, and is well worthy of its position.
Almshouses continue to be built, for the fountain of benevolence is not yet dried up.
Looking upon a world rather astonishingly full of almshouses for people of humble birth, he conceived the somewhat original idea of founding what, with extreme delicacy, he termed a "College" for gentlemen reduced to poor circumstances.
Almost its chief buildings are the admirably designedalmshouses built in memory of Mr. Charles Webb of Clapham Common.
Outside the church are some of Godstone's newer buildings, the almshouses erected by Mrs. Hunt of Wonham House in memory of her daughter; like the additions to the church, they are the work of Sir Gilbert Scott.
One very interesting development in Stratford shows the difference between the poorhouses of subsequent centuries and the almshouses of Columbus' Century.
The parish almshouses were built in the wide part of Broad Street on ground granted by Lord Southampton, but were removed as an impediment to traffic in 1783 to the Coal Yard, near the north of Drury Lane.
The next opening on the south side is Dyers' Buildings, with name reminiscent of some former almshouses of the Dyers' Company.
Of almshouses associated with gilds at Colchester, Stratford and Abingdon, none survived save the latter, which was incorporated by Edward VI.
The existing almshousesin Chichester and Hereford were likewise associated with those cathedrals.
Several large almshouses possessed collegiate rights or formed part of a college (e.
Inmates of almshouses were frequently under a solemn vow regarding religious exercises.
In the almshouses of Ewelme and Heytesbury also there were non-resident pupils.
For a time the work of buildingalmshouses ceased, but revived after a while.
Boxes of this kind, sometimes having a chain attached, remain in almshouses at Canterbury, Leicester and Stamford.
In the later almshouses the inmates received wages and provided their own victuals, which were cooked by the attendant.
Yes, and then--' Gilbert came and sat down beside her, and they built a scheme for the almshouses so much wanted.
It was plain that the almshouses were the unsubstantial fabric of a dream, but no one now dared to refer to them, and Mr. Kendal desired Albinia to write to consult her cousin.
The original mansion of Crepin probably at this time gave way to a new hall, and to which now, for the first time, were attached the almshouses mentioned.
He left almshouses at Woolwich, and two houses in Lombard Street, to the Company.
Whittington, by his wealth and charity, reflected great lustre on the Mercers' Company, who at his death were left trustees of the college and almshouses founded by the immortal Richard on College Hill.
The Company built seven almshouses near the hall in the reign of Henry IV.
The almshouses form a small range of cottage-like buildings, and are situate between the hall and a second large building, which adjoins the church, and bears some resemblance to an additional hall or chapel.
Children from almshousesbound out to service in United States, 320.
Children from the almshouses were likewise bound out for a term of service.
At Shrewsbury the almshousesof the Drapers and Mercers survived[122], and the vicar of S.
Chad's almshouses formed a chief argument against the dissolution of the Mercers' company.
Passing through the entry we should have seen seven modest almshousesfor the brethren and sisters of the guilds.
One finds these almshouses in many of the older English towns.
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