2014
TQ3975 : Gateway to Merchant Taylors Almshouses
taken 12 years ago, near to Blackheath, Lewisham, England
Gateway to Merchant Taylors Almshouses
The gateway is dated 1855, which is some 29 years later than the almshouses themselves. It is listed grade 2 (list entry number 1358480). A Victorian postbox is set into the brick wall adjacent to it.
Merchant Taylors Almshouses and Boone's Chapel, Lee
The almshouses are around three sides of a courtyard to the north of Lee High Road, Lewisham. The current buildings were built in 1826. In front of them stood the earlier almshouses and chapel from 1683 originally commissioned by Christopher Boone, a London merchant and a member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, demolished in 1875. The adjacent Boone's Chapel continued to function as a reading room, but fell into disuse after 1945 and restored in the early 2000s.
The almshouses and chapel are now listed grade 2 and grade 1 respectively (List entry Numbers 1080030 and 1079981).
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- Grid Square
- TQ3975, 276 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Stephen Craven (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 1 March, 2014 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 2 March, 2014
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TQ 3915 7529 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:27.5694N 0:0.0925E - Camera Location
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OSGB36: TQ 3914 7529
- View Direction
- East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
