Faversham Almshouses

Faversham Almshouses
Location: Faversham, Kent, England
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Built: 1863
Listed Building – Grade II
Location of Faversham Almshouses in Kent

Faversham Almshouses are Grade II listed Almhouses in Faversham, 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.[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 £1,000,000 (£2.63 million as of 2012),[2].

List of chaplains

References

  1. ^ A topographical dictionary of England. Samuel Lewis, 1840.
  2. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
  3. ^ Mid-Victorian poetry, 1860-1879: an annotated biobibliography. Catherine W. Reilly
  4. ^ The Churchman's Annual and Popular Handbook for 1882. H. G. Dickson