Almshouses

NOTES: Founded by the Earl of Northampton in 1613 and built 1613-1617, these almshouses have been much altered. Greenwich Power Station was built in 1902-1910 by the LCC Architects Department.

NOTES: Ae-whylme is Anglo-Saxon for 'waters whelming' and the village dreives its name from a spring which empties into a rapid stream known as Ewelme Brook. The almhouses were established in 1437 by Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk.

SOURCE: J. C. Palmes (ed.). Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of architecture, 18th ed. (London: Athlone Press, 1975), p. 1008 NOTES: The Old Royal Naval College was built originally as the Royal Hospital for Seamen in 1696-1716. Sir Christopher Wren was responsible for its design (incorporating the earlier King Charles block by John Webb of 1667) and general layout. He was succeeded by Hawksmoor, who designed some of the blocks, ie the King William block. The Queen's House, commissioned in 1616 by Queen Anne, wife of James I, was designed ina Palladian style by Inigo Jones and completed in 1635

NOTES: Built in 1695 for the Corporation of Trinity House by the master carpenter, William Ogbourne, the almshouses consist of two rows of brick cottages facing each other across a garden. Having suffered bomb damage in 1941 during World War II, they were restored and modernized by the London County Council in 1956-1962.

NOTES: Built in 1695 for the Corporation of Trinity House by the master carpenter, William Ogbourne, the almshouses consist of two rows of brick cottages facing each other across a garden. Having suffered bomb damage in 1941 during World War II, they were restored and modernized by the London County Council in 1956-1962.

NOTES: Built in 1695 for the Corporation of Trinity House by the master carpenter, William Ogbourne, the almshouses consist of two rows of brick cottages facing each other across a garden. Having suffered bomb damage in 1941 during World War II, they were restored and modernized by the London County Council in 1956-1962.

NOTES: Built in 1695 for the Corporation of Trinity House by the master carpenter, William Ogbourne, the almshouses consist of two rows of brick cottages facing each other across a garden. Having suffered bomb damage in 1941 during World War II, they were restored and modernized by the London County Council in 1956-1962.