Site of medieval almshouse, Maison de Dieu/Royal Almshouses, Bocking (EHER 18420)
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Summary
Almshouses built in 1440, replaced by the Royal Almshouses in 1869.
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Location
| Grid reference | TL 7575 2557 (point) |
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Type and Period
Description
Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import:
In 1440 a royal license was granted for a Maison de Dieu for the relief and reception of seven poor people of Bocking. This later became the Royal Almshouses, but these were demolished and rebuilt in red brick in 1869. <1>
The licence to found a hospital in Bocking to be called Maison Dieu was granted to John Doreward in 1440. It survived the dissolution, apparently, as Morant mentions it (1768), but by 1837-8 the premises had for a long period of time been in use as an almshouse. <2>
November 1975. Field visit.
No evidence of the medieval hospital was found. A terrace of probable 19th century almshouses are situated to the north-west of King's Bridge Bocking, but it is not known whether these are built on the site of the almshouses mentioned above. <3>
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Other References
- NRHE identifier: 378774
- National Monuments Record: TL 72 NE 18