Definition of Bedehouse. Meaning of Bedehouse. Synonyms of Bedehouse

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Definition of Bedehouse

Bedehouse
Bedehouse Bede"house`, n. Same as Beadhouse.
Bedehouse
Beadhouse Bead"house`, Bedehouse Bede"house`, n. [OE. bede prayer + E. house. See Bead, n.] An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

Meaning of Bedehouse from wikipedia

- An almshouse (also known as a bede-house, poorhouse, or hospital) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community, especially during...
- becoming known as 'beads'. Beadsmen were sometimes accommodated in a Bedehouse (an alms-house), some of which have survived into modern times. These...
- Lyddington Bede House (or Lyddington Bedehouse) is a historic house in Rutland, England, owned and opened to the public by English Heritage. The existing...
- dated back to the 12th century. From c. 1144 to c. 1650 many hospitals, bedehouses and maisons Dieu were built in Scotland. There are many terms that apply...
- Retrieved 25 June 2016. "Key to English Place-names". Historic England. "The Bedehouse (1264528)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2015...
- William Faber at the time that Cotton College was built; in use St Anne's Bedehouses, Lincoln, (1847) – intact; in use Convent of the Good Shepherd, Hammersmith...
- and gradually the use of mortifications declined. Sometimes a hospital, Bedehouse, or care home was given money directly to further its purposes. The City...
- school in Wirksworth when there shall be one and for poor folks in a bedehouse there". The National Archives. Retrieved 29 July 2020. Anthony Gell School...
- Almshouses, providing charitable housing to the poor, were also known as bedehouses, poorhouses or hospitals. Today, as part of Seckford Care, Seckford Hospital...
- retrieved 27 May 2022 Historic England, "The Cromford Almshouses or Bedehouses, Cromford (1263909)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 27...