Monument record 0435800000 - CHENIES ALMSHOUSES

Plan Form - Square.
Founded 1605 by Anne Countess of Warwick (B1).
Charitable function- "Chenies: The Hospital, or Almshouse, in the southern part of the village, near the road from Amersham to Rickmansworth, and about half a mile from the Ph. Church, was erected in 1605, by Anne Countess of Warwick ... by whom it was endowed with #50 p.a. for the support of ten poor persons; six of Chenies, two of Northall (in Edlesborough), and two of Wotton Underedge, Co. Glos. ... The Minister of Chenies, for the time being, is the visitor and inspector of the houses, who, together with the churchwardens and overseers, and three principal inhabitants, appoint the persons to occupy the almshouses, and superintend the equal distribution of the charity ..."(B2).
"Chenies Almshouse ... consists of ten district tenements of two rooms each, forming three sides of a square. The building which is of two stories in height, is in the Tudor style, the centre and both ends presenting ornamental gables, in each of which is an oriel window. The three gables are surmounted with stone crosses, and in the centre of the palisading that connects the ends, is an ornamental doorway to the area in front of the hospital." (B3).
Demolished (B6).

Shown at TQ 0229 9765 and annotated 'Almshouses' (B7).
No trace of these Almshouses now remains (B8).