Abbot's Hospital (Guildford) | shelter housing, Grade I Listed (UK)

United Kingdom / England / Guildford / High Street
 shelter housing, Grade I Listed (UK)
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A Jacobean almshouse, also a Grade I listed building. Founded in 1619 by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury in the reign of James I. Although the place had been termed as hospital, but it was never a "hospital" in the modern sense of the word but a place to offer town centre accommodation within a sociable and supportive environment for local elderly people.
www.abbotshospital.org/
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Coordinates:   51°14'11"N   -0°34'16"E
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