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Trinity Green Almshouses (formerly Trinity Hospital) are a series of

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. They were originally built in 1695 to provide housing for retired sailors, and are possibly the 2nd oldest almshouses in Central London, The Charterhouse, founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 being the oldest. .url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/row-over-sainsburys-scheme-for-tower-near-whitechapel-almshouses-a3172771.html, title= Row over Sainsbury's scheme for tower near Whitechapel almshouses, last1=Prynn, first1=Jonathan, last2=Bourke, first2=Joanna, work=

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, date=4 February 2016, access-date=12 May 2016 The buildings were damaged during the

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, and were restored in the 1950s by

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History

The Trinity Green Almshouses were built in 1695 by the Corporation of

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to provide housing for "28 decay’d Masters & Commanders of Ships or ye Widows of such"; the land was given to the corporation by Captain Henry Mudd of

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e. The almshouses are believed to have been designed by Sir William Ogbourne, and the houses were organised into two rows, with a central green and chapel. The chapel is in the

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. In 1735, Trinity Green had 28 people, at a cost of 12

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per resident per month. In 1895–96, Trinity Green was threatened with closure, after Sir Frederic Leighton proposed that the almshouses be destroyed. The closure was prevented due to a public campaign led by

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, who set up a ''Committee for the Survey of the Memorials of Greater London''. The almshouses were the first buildings to be put on his preservation register, which eventually became the

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system. In 1927, a bronze bust memorial for

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was installed at Trinity Green; in the 19th century, Booth had preached in the Vine Tavern in front of the almshouses, which had led to the founding of

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. In the

, the Trinity Green almshouses were damaged, with those almshouses north of the chapel being destroyed. In 1950, Trinity Green became a

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; the listing included the almshouses, chapel, gates, railings and walls. In 1954,

bought and restored the non-destroyed houses, including the restoration of the chapel with 18th-century panelling from

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. When

was built, Trinity Green's location was altered from rural peace and quiet into traffic. Trinity Green was included on a Mile End mural created in 2011. In 2016, local residents complained at proposals for

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to build a 28-storey tower block less than from the Trinity Green almshouses; they argued that the tower block would cast a shadow over the almshouses.

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