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Penrose's Almshouses

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Penrose's Almshouses are 17th-century almshouses in Litchdon Street, Barnstaple, in Devon, England, built in memory of John Penrose (1575–1624), a merchant and Mayor of Barnstaple. [1]

17 relations: Allotment (gardening), Almshouse, Barnstaple, British Library, Colonnade, Dado (architecture), Devon, English Civil War, Gable, Historic England, Lectern, Listed building, Mayor of Barnstaple, Nikolaus Pevsner, Penguin Books, Richard Beaple, St Peter's Church, Barnstaple.

Allotment (gardening)

An allotment garden (British English), often called simply an allotment, or a community garden (North America) is a plot of land made available for individual, non-commercial gardening or growing food plants.

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Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a poorhouse) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community.

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Barnstaple

Barnstaple is the main town of North Devon, England and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Colonnade

In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building.

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Dado (architecture)

In architecture, the dado is the lower part of a wall, below the dado rail and above the skirting board.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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Lectern

A lectern (from the Latin lectus, past participle of legere, "to read") is a reading desk, with a slanted top, usually placed on a stand or affixed to some other form of support, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Mayor of Barnstaple

The Mayor of Barnstaple together with the Corporation long governed the historic Borough of Barnstaple, in North Devon, England.

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Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, and especially that of architecture.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Richard Beaple

Richard Beaple (1564-1643) of Barnstaple, Devon, was a wealthy merchant, ship owner and member of the Spanish Company and was thrice Mayor of Barnstaple, in 1607, 1621 and 1635.

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St Peter's Church, Barnstaple

St Peter's Church is the parish church of the town of Barnstaple in North Devon, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose's_Almshouses

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