Hurst's Almshouses, Grantham, Lincs.
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Hurst's Almshouses, Grantham, Lincs.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 9 Aug 2016
A row of 8 Grade II-listed almshouses, the windows of which - in this rear elevation - face the main entrance of St Wulfrum's Church. Note the graveyard gateway. Thomas Hurst (1598-1674) was born in Barrowby and became Rector of Barrowby and Leadenham in 1629, having gained a Doctorate in Divinity. However, he was absent from his parishes for two years during the Civil War preaching to the Royalists as a chaplain to King Charles I and as a consequence he lost his livings. While deprived of these livings he resided in Grantham in The White House, Brownlow Street. In gratitude for the help he gave to the people of Grantham during an outbreak of plague in 1637 he was made a freeman of the borough. He was eventually reinstated in his parishes in 1660 after paying a fine of £640. In his will he endowed two groups of almshouses, these ones - built in the C17th & rebuilt during the C19th - and another cluster in Barrowby.
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