Gray's Almshouses, East Street, Taunton - datestone
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Gray's Almshouses, East Street, Taunton - datestone by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 16 Jul 2021
The stone tablet explains the foundation of the almshouses by Robert Graye (though the more modern spelling Gray is usually used to refer to them these days) and gives the date 1635. See Image for context.