Church Estate Almshouses
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Church Estate Almshouses
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 22 Jul 2010
This is the back of the buildings, seen from St Mary's Grove. The front faces Sheen Road. They are listed grade 2 (listed building no. 435926 or Heritage asset number 1252805 from 2011). According to a local history website http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_almshouses.pdf, "The Church Estate charity is the oldest charity in Richmond, having been founded in the reign of Mary I by Thomas Denys. Denys gave properties to the Church for repairing the church and other charitable deeds in 1558. There was a dispute over the property which was possibly settled in 1650 when a trust was formed to provide for the poor of Richmond ... By 1844, the Trustees of the Church Estate ... built 10 almshouses for men and women on a site adjacent to Hickey’s Almshouses in Sheen Road."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.462329
Longitude
-0.29158