Faversham Almshouses
Faversham Almshouses are Grade II listed Almshouses in Faversham, Kent.
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Location | Faversham, Kent, England |
Coordinates | 51°18′53″N 0°53′05″E |
Built | 1863 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
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History
Almshouses for six widows were founded and endowed by Thomas Mendfield in 1614.
In 1721 Thomas Napleton founded and endowed houses for six men.[1]
In 1840, Henry Wreight, local solicitor and former Mayor of Faversham, gave a bequest which enabled the rebuilding of the almshouses on a grand scale. The architects were Hooker and Wheeler of Brenchley, Kent and the rebuilding was complete by 1863. The builder was G W Chinnock Bros of Southampton.
The accommodation was modernised in 1982 at a cost of £1 million (about £3.56 million as of 2020).
List of chaplains
- J. H. Talbot 1867–1870
- William Francis Hobson 1870–1881[2]
- Henry Eldridge Curtis 1881[3]–????
- Joseph Henry Miles 1922–1930
- Canon Tony Oehring
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References
- Samuel Lewis: A topographical dictionary of England, 1840.
- Catherine W. Reilly: Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860–1879: an annotated bibliography
- H. G. Dickson: The Churchman's Annual and Popular Handbook for 1882
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