NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES
NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES, ST HELENS CHURCHYARD, ABINGDON, OX14 5EH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199995
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES
- Statutory Address:
- NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES, ST HELENS CHURCHYARD, ABINGDON, OX14 5EH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199995
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES, ST HELENS CHURCHYARD, ABINGDON, OX14 5EH
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES, ST HELENS CHURCHYARD, ABINGDON, OX14 5EH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Abingdon on Thames
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 49661 96786
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/02/2017
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ST HELENS CHURCHYARD
1-3, Twittys Almshouses
(Formerly listed as Twitty's Almshouses, WEST ST HELEN STREET (West Side))
19.1.51
GV
II
1707. Founded by Charles Twitty, "deputy auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer on in Westminster". Single storeyed red brick building. Modillion eaves cornice. Central pediment with ball finial and weathervane. Hipped roof with attractive glazed lantern of square plan. Panelled door and casement window of four lights, glazing bars, brick gauged voussoirs.
(See Preston "Christ's Hospital" (1930), pp 60-61).
Twitty's Almshouses, Long Alley Almshouses, Brick Alley Almshouses and
Church of St Helen form a group
Listing NGR: SU4966396789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 250531
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Preston, , Christs Hospital, (1930), 60-61
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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