The founder
Nicholas Eyffler was a glass maker from Germany who worked at Charlecote and Kenilworth Castle. Warwickshire County Record Office has a fine collection of documents about him; including his ...
This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming ...
There was one small almshouse in Kenilworth, known as the ‘Widow’s Charity Houses’. It was founded in 1644 for poor widows by George Denton of Warwick, though later it was ...
The almshouse at Temple Balsall was founded by Lady Katherine Leveson who added a codicil to her will in 1671 leaving the manor of Balsall to Trustees for the erection ...
