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Summary

Grendon's almshouses, called the ten cells, were founded by simon grendon for 10 poor women in 1399 (clay).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX99SW/182
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ALMSHOUSE (Early Medieval to XXI - 1066 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

CLAY, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25572.

Grendon's almshouses, called the ten cells, were founded by simon grendon for 10 poor women in 1399 (clay).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25576.

Lysons, d. + s. /magna britannia/6 devon(1822)223-4.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25577.

Clay, r. M. /medieval hospitals of england/(1966)286.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25578.

Hoskins, w. G. /two thousand years in exeter/(1960)38-39.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25579.

Doe/hhr:exeter/(-/6/1974)121.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV25580.

Osa=sx99sw127.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV329908.

Founded by simon grendon 1406. Originally in preston street. Rebuilt in 1880. Three projecting gabled bays with entrances. Mullion and transom casement windows with tiled roof and clustered chimneys (doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV335.

They were in preston street until 1878, when the present two storey, tudor style buildings of local stone were built in grendon road by robert w. Best.(hoskins).

Lysons, D. + Lysons, S., 1822, Magna Britannica (Monograph). SDV323771.

Almshouses founded in 1406 (lysons).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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