The almshouses were relocated in 1966 to Felbridge near East Grinstead.

Nearby were two religious almshouses ; St. Barts Hospital dates back to around 1190 and St. Thomas's Hospital which was built in the 14th century and named in honour of St. Thomas Becket.

In 1857 Gell had also donated some of her land near St Giles's Church for five almshouses to be built for longstanding servants of the Gell household or Ickenham residents who were members of the Church of England.

* St. John's Cottages on Maple Road were built as almshouses in 1863, designed by the architect Edwin Nash.

Hospitals too were frequently to be re-endowed by private benefactors ; and many new almshouses and charities were to be founded by the Elizabethan gentry and professional classes.

Also exempt were charitable institutions such as schools and almshouses, and industrial hearths with the exception of smiths ' forges and bakers ' ovens.

The majority of the town's listed buildings were originally residential ; churches, chapels, public houses, schools, banks, almshouses and workhouses are also well represented.

The almshouses were relocated to Brandon Street in the 1960s as part of the major redevelopments here.

The documented history of social housing in Britain starts with almshouses which were established from the 10th century, to provide a place of residence for " poor, old and distressed folk ".

In 1864, the Legislature appointed Dr. Sylvester D. Willard to investigate conditions in almshouses, jails and other places where the insane were kept.

They were never reformed, although The Biggin was for many years used as almshouses.

The Corporation were forced to fell trees within the town and sell the timber as means to fund the construction of schools and almshouses.

By 1837, there were ten almshouses in the parish under the ownership of the Corporation, with others operated by charities.

The first almshouses run by the Company were built in 1543-44, close to Leathersellers ' Hall on a site behind St Ethelburga's Church, and housed seven elderly people.

The former almshouses in West Street are noted historic buildings of Kent ; they were founded in 1610 by John Southland, an important local magnate, and rebuilt in 1734.

The almshouses were built in 1818 on part of the parish burial ground in Camden Town and St Pancras and replaced ones built in 1683.

An inscription on the almshouses records that they were built in 1640 as " The work and gift of Henry Cornish, gent ".

The Wynn almshouses, in the High Street, were founded in 1621 and were endowed " To the World's End " by John Wynne, a cloth merchant from London who left £ 1000 in his will of 1614 for their upkeep.

Many almshouses were European Christian institutions though some are secular.

Many of the medieval almshouses in England were established with the aim of benefiting the soul of the founder or their family, and they usually incorporated a chapel.

The basis for modern civil almshouses and workhouses came into being in 1597 when the English Poor Laws were enacted.

On 6 June 1557 Sir John Port of Etwall died without a male heir and his bequests included funds to provide almshouses at Etwall but also the means to found a " Grammar School in Etwalle or Reptone ", where the scholars every day were to pray for the souls of his parents and other relatives.

In 1619 George Abbot founded the Hospital of the Holy Trinity, now commonly known as Abbot's Hospital, one of the finest sets of almshouses in the country.

The present Christ's Hospital originally belonged to the Guild of the Holy Cross, on the dissolution of which Edward VI founded the almshouses instead, under its present name.

In 1678 the town's future Member of Parliament Thomas Guy founded almshouses in Tamworth, rebuilt in 1913.

* The Lucas Hospital, almshouses founded in 1663 for sixteen elderly men from the surrounding parishes.

Other notable historical buildings in the town include the almshouses of saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, founded in their current form in 1438 and expanded in the Victorian era in indistinguishable medieval style architecture.

His father, Robert Hudson founded the " Maison Dieu " almshouses opposite the Church in 1640, which complement the stone built " Anne of Cleves House " opposite.

He founded almshouses in Great Linford, which are still there today.

He founded seven almshouses in Woodbridge in 1586 which he endowed with an income of £ 112 13s 4d (£ 112. 66p ) per year from land in Clerkenwell, Middlesex.

Further along, and on the opposite side of the High Street are the Fox almshouses, also founded in 1897 at the bequest of local brewer John Henry Fox.

Edmund provided land for the almshouses named ' Queen Elizabeth College ', founded in 1574, and himself lived at ' Swanne House.

Inside are monuments to the great and the good of the many manors in the parish, including an excellent brass to John Estbury ( 1508 ), who founded the almshouses outside, and fine effigies of Sir Thomas Essex and his wife ( 1558 ).

Though so occupied in politics, he seems to have been a man with wider interests, a considerable portion of his wealth was spent on charitable objects ; he founded almshouses at Ingatestone, and designed scholarships for All Souls College, Oxford, but his chief benefactions were to Exeter College, Oxford, and entitle him to be considered its second founder.

A considerable portion of his wealth was spent on charitable objects ; he founded almshouses at Ingatestone, and endowed scholarships for All Souls ' College, Oxford.

He founded almshouses in King Street and on St. Michaels Hill, endowed Queen Elizabeth's Hospital school and helped found Colston's Hospital, a boarding school which opened in 1710 leaving an endowment to be managed by the Society of Merchant Venturers for its upkeep.

The adjacent almshouses which occupy the central part of Livery Dole were founded in March 1591 by Sir Robert Denys ( 1525 – 1592 ) of Holcombe Burnell and Bicton and were completed, as he requested in his will, by his son Sir Thomas Denys ( 1559 – 1613 ) in 1594.

In 1885 Kelly's Directory reported a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1866, and a school and four almshouses founded in 1780 by William Welby ; a further school for 70 pupils was built in 1869.

Archdeacon Robert Johnson ( 1540 – 1625 ) was Rector of North Luffenham for 51 years, from 1574 until his death ; he founded Oakham and Uppingham Schools in 1584, as well as other charitable institutions including almshouses.

The almshouses in Church Street date from 1624, and were founded under the will of John Dunster of London ( died 1625 ).

The pub was named in honour of the almshouses on Lea Bridge Road built in 1857 by the London Master Bakers ' Benevolent Institution.

* There are many Victorian almshouses in Penge, the oldest being the Royal Watermen's Almshouses, built around 1840 by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the City of London for retired company Freemen and their widows.

With the monks expelled, Charterhouse became a private house, before the foundation by Thomas Sutton in 1611 of a charitable foundation forming the school named Charterhouse and almshouses known as Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse on the site.

Carre's Grammar School was established in 1604 by Robert Carre of Aswarby ( later Sir Robert Carr of Old Sleaford ) who went on to found Carre's Hospital in 1636 ( Sleaford Hospital survives as a charitable trust, owning and operating the almshouses at the junction of Carre Street and Eastgate immediately to the south of St. Denys Church and a later set of almshouses in Northgate ).

Its premises at the Chantry in Church Street, Aylesbury, are still there, though today the site is occupied mainly by almshouses.

She built and endowed by will some almshouses at Teddington, and was buried in St. Mary's Church, the parish church.

The merchants also built several almshouses, and they ensured they would be remembered by installing elaborate monuments to their families in the church.

The construction of almshouses directly by the church was exemplary.

The Cross Tree, immortalised by R. D. Blackmore in his 1882 novel Christowell, is now only represented by a cross minus its shaft, which is enclosed near the almshouses.

The almshouses are further adorned by diagonally placed chimney stacks.

Spelsbury has a group of almshouses built in 1688 by John Carry.

The almshouses were erected in 1798 by Caroline, duchess of Marlborough.

Today, the main street of the original village also features almshouses, a public house ( the Hambro Arms ), Post Office / shop, a now redundant school building, a church ( designed by James Wyatt ) and a Weslyan chapel.

The Remonstrantshofje is a hofje ( courtyard surrounded by almshouses ) in Haarlem, Netherlands.

In 1843, Dorothea Dix submitted a Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts, describing the abusive treatment and horrible conditions received by the mentally ill patients in jails, cages, and almshouses.