Chipping Campden Alms houses
Chipping Campden is the quintessential Cotswold town. It has a variety of building styles that have survived from all ages. Chipping Campden was one of the Cotswold's main wool markets. Chipping Campden has important links with the Arts and Crafts movement. Ashbee set up his Guild of Handicrafts here in 1902. His workshop in the old silk mill in Sheep Street is now a small Alms Houses were built in 1612 for £1000 by Sir Baptist Hicks in the form of a capital I and their simple style shows the early influence in Britain of the Renaissance. They were and still are used as the homes of twelve pensioners. Each dwelling has an upper and lower room and each front door is shared by two houses. Sir Baptist Hicks's coat of arms and motto "NONDVM METAM", meaning 'I shall not fear yet' can be found on the Alms Houses.
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