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| almshouses, Wigton | ||
| College of Matrons | ||
| Hospital of Christ | ||
| Matron's College | ||
| Christ's Hospital | ||
| locality:- | Wigton | |
| civil parish:- | Wigton (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | almshouse | |
| coordinates:- | NY255482 (approx) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2548 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY24 | |
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 BNN93.jpg (taken 11.4.2007)  BNN94.jpg Plaque:- "Collegium Matronarum / Provento annuo / Instruxit / John Thomlinson A.M. / Erexit / Robt. ejus Frater S.T.P. / A.D. 1723." (taken 11.4.2007) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- College of Matrons placename:- Hospital of Christ |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 186:- "..." "At Wigton, a market town, is an hospital founded 1725 by John Thomlinson, M.A. rector of Rothbury, c. Northumberland, for six poor widows of clergymen of the diocese of Carlisle, or of that part of Cumberland which is in the diocese of Chester, incorporated by the name of the governess and sisters of the college of matrons, or hospital of Christ, in Wigton, c. Cumberland, and endowed with £.54. per annum. ..." |
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| evidence:- | database:- Listed Buildings 2010 |
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| source data:- | courtesy of English Heritage "/ 40238 / CHURCH STREET / WIGTON / ALLERDALE / CUMBRIA / II / 72019 / NY2558848299" |
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