Datestone above entrance. Sandes Hospital, Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
The Kendal Civic Society information plaque on Sandes Hospital reads as follows:- In this Yard, Thomas Sandes (1606 - 81), cloth mershant and former Mayor of Kendal, founded a school and eight almshouses for poor widows. The gatehouse, once the master's house, had single storey wings and housed the school and library in the chamber over the gateway. The houses were rebuilt in 1852 by Kendal architect Miles Thompson. In 1886 thye school merged with Kendal Grammar School which was succeeded in 1980 by Kirkbie Kendal School whose Trustees still own the property. The datestone above the entrance shows shearman's tools and the Sandes family is dated 1659.
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Location: Sandes Hospital, Highgate, Kendal, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
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