Volume: 'Mayer's Asylum', Wisbech
- Location:
- Mayer's Asylum, Canal Side, Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire
- Reference:
- BF020534
- Type:
- Volume Containing Photographic, Graphic And Textual Material
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Description
'Mayer's Asylum' was founded with a bequeath in the 1811 will of Mrs Judith Mayer of Wisbech, who intended for the money to provide an 'asylum', or 'hospital for the infirm'. However, instead of this original plan, an almshouse for five inhabitants was built in 1815. 'Mayer's Asylum Fund' was still in existence in the 21st century as part of the Wisbech Charities, an amalgamation of charities which operated in the town in 1965.
File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
Content
This is part of the Series: RCH01/004 Monarch Nbr Index Migration Files; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive
This Volume contains the following materials:
Rights
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Keywords
Post Medieval Almshouse