Listed Building record MDO9598 - Common Room to Almshouses, Wimborne St Giles

(2) ALMSHOUSES (03161199), adjacent to the church on the N.W., are of one storey and have brick walls with ashlar dressings, and tile-covered roofs (Plate 61). They were built c. 1624 (Hutchins III, 600) and comprise a central common-room, now disused, flanked by symmetrical wings. Each wing originally contained five dwellings. The S.W. front of the centre bay is gabled and of two storeys, with a three-arched loggia in the lower storey and with an inscription panel and a cartouche-of-arms flanked by square-headed casement windows with moulded surrounds in the upper storey. The inscription, within a border of bezants, reads 'Leberasti me Domine in maxima tribulatione'. The shield-of-arms, uncharged except for a baronet's badge carved on a canton, is surmounted by a helm and crest (a vase of ostrich feathers above a coronet) and is flanked by carved mantling; presumably the charges were painted. The arms are enclosed in a moulded rectangular frame with egg-and-dart enrichment. (2)

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