Faversham Almshouses

Almshouses for six widows were founded and endowed by Thomas Mendfield in 1614.^[2]

In 1721 Thomas Napleton founded and endowed houses for six men.^[3]

In 1840, Henry Wreight, local solicitor and former Mayor of Faversham, gave a bequest which enabled the rebuilding of the almshouses on a grand scale.^[2] The architects were Hooker and Wheeler of Brenchley, Kent and the rebuilding was complete by 1863.^[2] The builder was G W Chinnock Bros of Southampton.^[4]

The accommodation was modernised in 1982 at a cost of £1 million (about £4.46 million as of 2023).

• J. H. Talbot 1867–1870
• William Francis Hobson 1870–1881^[5]
• Henry Eldridge Curtis 1881^[6]–????
• Joseph Henry Miles 1922–1930
• Canon Tony Oehring

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