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Latitude: 51.6677 / 51°40'3"N
Longitude: -1.2833 / 1°16'59"W
OS Eastings: 449661
OS Northings: 196787
OS Grid: SU496967
Mapcode National: GBR 7YR.DC0
Mapcode Global: VHCY6.PBXX
Plus Code: 9C3WMP98+3M
Entry Name: NOs 1-3, TWITTYS ALMSHOUSES
Listing Date: 19 January 1951
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1199995
English Heritage Legacy ID: 250531
ID on this website: 101199995
Location: Abingdon-on-Thames, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, OX14
County: Oxfordshire
District: Vale of White Horse
Civil Parish: Abingdon on Thames
Built-Up Area: Abingdon
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Abingdon-on-Thames
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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
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