Faversham Almshouses are Grade II listed

Almshouses An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) was charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during the medieval era. They were often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certai ...

Faversham Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient Briti ...

, Kent.

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. 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

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, Kent and the rebuilding was complete by 1863. The builder was G W Chinnock Bros of

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. The accommodation was modernised in 1982 at a cost of £ (about £ as of ).

List of chaplains

*J. H. Talbot 1867–1870 *William Francis Hobson 1870–1881 *Henry Eldridge Curtis 1881H. G. Dickson: ''The Churchman's Annual and Popular Handbook for 1882''–???? *Joseph Henry Miles 1922–1930 *Canon Tony Oehring

References

{{Reflist Almshouses in Kent Residential buildings completed in 1863 Grade II listed almshouses Grade II listed buildings in Kent Buildings and structures in Faversham