Trinity Green Almshouses
Historic site · Whitechapel, England
Trinity Green Almshouses are two rows of houses facing each other across a central green off Mile End Road, with a chapel closing the far end. The Corporation of Trinity House founded them in 1695. They are Grade I, NHLE 1241071, listed on 29 December 1950 as 'Trinity Green (Almshouses and Chapel) including gates, railings, wall and piers'. The houses are private residences and the interiors are not open to visitors, so the green is seen from Mile End Road.
History
The almshouses were founded on land given by Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliffe and built as 28 dwellings for, in the founding wording, 28 decay'd Masters and Commanders of Ships or the widows of such. The design is attributed to Sir William Ogbourne, though some accounts have credited Sir Christopher Wren. Bombing in the Second World War destroyed the range north of the chapel; the London County Council bought and restored what survived in 1954, refitting the chapel with 18th-century panelling from Bradmore House.
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Trinity Green, Mile End Road, Whitechapel, London E1 4TS
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