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Ford's Hospital

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Coventry

Ford's Hospital

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Ford's Hospital

Name: Ford's Hospital
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Localização:Coventry, Região das Midlands Oeste, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

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Bumble-Bee

24 de junho de 2025

This almshouse was founded in 1529 by William Ford, a wool merchant, for five men and their wives. The Hospital came under threat after the Reformation, with the crown claiming the lands in the early 17th century. Coventry corporation, however, recognised the value of this home for the elderly; they repurchased most of the land and took over responsibility for the almshouses.

(ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/fords-hospital-coventry)

MarkUK97

23 de abril de 2022

Ford's Hospital, Coventry, traditionally known as Grey Friars Hospital, is a grade I listed 16th century half-timbered almshouse in Greyfriars Lane, Coventry. It was founded by the merchant William Ford (or perhaps 'Fourd') in 1509 to provide accommodation for six elderly people: five men and one woman. Despite the earlier name of "Grey Friars", it bears no relationship to the Franciscan Order but was so named because of its location on Greyfriars Lane.

Inside the building is a narrow courtyard (13 yd × 4 yd (11.9 m × 3.7 m)). It has been considered by historians and writers to be a particularly fine example of English domestic architecture of the period.

Following Ford's death, the endowment was extended in 1517 to allow six places for couples to live together. In 1529, it was extended further to allow five more couples to stay. According to W. Hickling, a Coventry historian writing in 1846, it was by then serving forty women, each of whom received an allowance of three shillings and six pence per week.

During the Coventry Blitz, the building was hit by German bombing, like many other parts of the city. A bomb dropped on 14 October 1940 killed the warden, a nurse and six residents. It was restored with original timbers between 1951 and 1953. The building is located on the site of a chapel within Greyfriars Friary. In 1940, John Bailey Shelton, a Coventry archaeologist discovered encaustic tiles typical of those found in a chapel. The building was built with a considerable amount of teak.

In 2006 the building was used as a location for the episode of Doctor Who called The Shakespeare Code. In attempting to reconstruct the Globe Theatre, Shakespeare scholars have used Ford's Hospital to understand Elizabethan doorways.

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Localização:Coventry, Região das Midlands Oeste, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

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1. Circuito War Memorial Park Coventry – Igreja da Santíssima Trindade, Coventry (ponto de partida: Bishopsgate Green)

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