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| Sandes Hospital, Kendal | ||
| Sandes Hospital | ||
| Street:- | Highgate | |
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | buildings | |
| locality type:- | almshouse | |
| coordinates:- | SD51469251 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5192 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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 BLU79.jpg (taken 9.4.2006)  BLU80.jpg Collecting box:- "REMEMBER THE POORE / Remember the Poor Widows" (taken 9.4.2006) |
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| Thomas Sandes, b.1606 d.1681, cloth merchant, mayor of Kendal, founded a school and
almshouses for 8 poor widows. The almshouses were rebuilt by architect Miles Thompson,
1852. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Sandes Hospital |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Sand's Hospital |
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| source data:- | Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or
Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the
pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London,
monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto sourceGentleman's Magazine 1816 part 1 p.379 Obituaries "Westmoreland - At Kendal, aged 76, Mrs. Jane Emmerson, who has left the bulk of her real and personal estate to charitable institutions in that town; one-third to the widows of Sands' Hospital; ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- Sandes Hospital Cottages item:- date stone (1659); date stone (1852) |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "SANDES HOSPITAL COTTAGES / 40391 / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75399 / SD5143592522" |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 item:- date stone |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "/ 80 AND 80A / HIGHGATE / KENDAL / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 75398 / SD5146492517" |
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 BLU81.jpg Coat of arms of Thomas Sandes and cloth workers tools, a card, shears, and ? (taken 9.4.2006) |
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