Type: Sites and monuments databases or inventories Publisher: Archaeology Data Service
[Abstract of List Description, to be scanned in]: Almshouses. Founded in 1607 by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, and built in 1618 with alterations of 1857. Coursed limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar and red brick dressings; machine tile roof. Dwellings and other rooms arranged aro...
Type: Sites and monuments databases or inventories Publisher: Archaeology Data Service
Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Medium score as one of 10 Hospitals. History: Founded in 1409. No record of its suppression <1a>/ Founded by Bennett Tupton a common Beere Bruar <1b>/ Similar to an almshouse, usually under a rule for men only <1a>/ Apparently not...
Type: Sites and monuments databases or inventories Publisher: Archaeology Data Service
History: Little known. Early C13 documentary reference and in 1267 specifically referred to as a Leper Hospital, and bequest to the hospital mentioned in 1330. By 1547 the hospital had become an almshouse and belonged to SA 1771, St Johns Hospital, at this time. Thought to have stood on th...
Type: Sites and monuments databases or inventories Publisher: Archaeology Data Service
Hospital of St Nicholas...founded 1446 <1a>In 1446, Wm Glover was granted land between the churchyard and the kings highway upon which to build Town Almshouses. Here, four persons of Newport were maintained until 1836 when the site of the building was required for the enlargement of...