1 The original almshouses were in High Street but were pulled down to make way for the Town Hall (WA 3625).
2 The present ones were built in 1885 and consist ...
Elborough Almshouses, houses built for poor people to live in during the Imperial period. They are situated on St. John Street, Rugby. Earlier spelling Elborow(e)
1 Dating to 1822 a single story range in whitened brick with cambered and latticed 3-light casements and ledged doors. Unusual cast iron verandah, carried on slim gothic shafts ...
Several almshouses that were built during the Imperial period to provide housing for the poor. They are located on Mancetter Road, Mancetter.
1 Almshouses developed in late 18th century with their own water pump (MWA2165). Became part of a joint almshouses charity known as St Marys Almshouses charity in 1956.
None of the ...
18th century almshouses located where Albert Street meets Saltisford, to the west of Saltisford Evangelical Church.
1 John and Catherine Bird in their lifetime gave £50 on the understanding that on Catherin’es death, land should be purchased with the sum. In 1669, a house, garden, orchard ...
A cottage, subsequently subdivided, and associated land was purchased with a bequest from the Birds for the poor of Rowington, in 1669. The cottage was condemned and demolished in the 1960s.
The accusations
George Taylor’s violations included books being kept by a pauper for the previous two years, and of these, many had been in arrears for several weeks, while the charge ...
1 Almshouses marked on OS map.
The site of almshouses that were built during the Imperial period. They are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. They are situated 450m south west of Coughton Court.
This almshouse was founded by Miss Marianne Phillips in the 1860s as a hostel for 12 poor, unmarried women. She left a £2,000 endowment for the almshouse. It was built ...
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 ...
The Almshouses at Shustoke were founded in 1699 by Thomas Huntbach the younger of Shustoke Hall, who died in 1712. They form a handsome row of stone cottages and are ...
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 ...
There are two sets of almshouses in Mancetter.
Cramer’s Almshouses
These were founded by James Cramer, a local man who made his fortune in London as a goldsmith. The building was erected ...
1 In 1840 the construction of the ‘new’ almshouses in Bedworth were completed on the site where they still stand.
New Almshouses, houses which were built during the Imperial period for poor people to live in. The almshouses are situated 100m north of All Saints Church, Bedworth.
The almshouses were founded in the 1570s by Thomas Oken, who has been called ‘Warwick’s most famous son’. He was a silk merchant – a self-made man without children who ...
Nicholas Chamberlaine, rector of Bedworth, founded this almshouse in 1715. He declared in his will: ‘I, having no child, do dispose of my estate to the charitable uses following’. His ...
1 An inscription above the centre door of this group of six almshouses reads…”the six almshouses erected in Bridget Street in 1860 by Catharine Butlin were replaced in 1905 by ...
The site of Butlins Almshouses, houses built during the Imperial period for poor people to live in. These almshouses were subsequently knocked down and replaced by new houses in 1905. They are situated in Stephen Street, Rugby.
