Merchant Taylors' Almshouses
- Merchant Taylors' Almshouses
Adjoining to the west end of the parish church of St. Martin Outwich in Threadneedle Street built in a squared court for seven men S. 182).
Shown in plan of the parish, 1599, in Wilkinson, Plate I.
Mentioned in Wardmote Inquest of the Ward of Broad Street, 15 H. VIII. 1523 (L. and P. H. VIII. III. Pt. 2, p. 1515).
The almshouses seem to have been removed to Tower Hill about 1597 (Herbert, II. 496), and the site in Threadneedle Street is now occupied by the Capital and Counties Bank, etc.
A Dictionary of London.
Henry A Harben.
1918.
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