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unusual facts about almshouses



Crewe Almshouses

Almshouses in Brackley, Northamptonshire: founded by Sir Thomas Crewe of Stene

Nicholas Chamberlaine

In Bedworth the Nicholas Chamberlaine's Almshouses and the Nicholas Chamberlaine Technology College are named after him.

Tiverton, Devon

Many wealthy wool merchants added to the town's heritage: for example, John Greenway (1460–1529) added a chapel to St Peter's parish church in 1517, and a small chapel and almshouses in Gold Street which still stand; the Almshouse Trust still houses people today.

West Haddon

Also of note are some almshouses at the west end of the village and West Haddon Hall, late Georgian.

Worshipful Company of Leathersellers

The Company still maintains almshouses in the London Borough of Barnet, now known as Leathersellers' Close, home to about 20 residents.

Wright's Almshouses, Nantwich

The Wright's Almshouses were built in 1638 by Edmund Wright, later Sir Edmund Wright, and were the town's second almshouses (after those on Welsh Row founded in 1613 by Sir Roger Wilbraham).


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