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The Dulwich Estate, previously the Estates Governors of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich, is a registered charity in England, one of the successors to the historic charity Edward Alleyn 's College of God's Gift that was founded in 1619. It owns the freehold of around 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) in Dulwich, South London, including a number ...
- The Chapel Is Consecrated
- The Dulwich Almshouse Opens
- The College Is Founded
- The Death of Alleyn and His Legacy
In September 1616, Christ’s Chapel of God’s Gift was consecrated. It was the first building to be funded by Alleyn’s foundation.
Later that same month, the first of the “poor brothers and sisters” was admitted to live in ground floor rooms of the Chapel. They were the first almspeople and came from four parishes with which Alleyn was closely associated: St Botolph’s Bishopsgate (where he was born); St Saviour’s Southwark (where he had lived and been Churchwarden); St Giles C...
Alleyn’s intention was “. .to found and establish a college in Dulwich to endure and remain for ever. .” and in 1619, that came to fruition when Alleyn’s College of God’s Gift opened. As promised, it provided education for twelve poor scholars, but also offered places to fee paying pupils.
Alleyn himself ran the College until his death in 1626, but secured its future by signing statutes that ensured the continued maintenance of the school and support for the poor scholars.
The property includes the small churchyard at the top of the cliff and an area of land to the east of the building. The church was built in 1953-61 to designs by Sir Giles and Adrian Gilbert Scott replacing a previous church dating from 1834 which was destroyed in the Second World War.
The Sistine Chapel (/ ˈ s ɪ s t iː n / SIST-een; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City.
Apr 1, 2018 · The chapel at Bramhope Hall, built around 1650 as a private chapel for Robert Dyneley, a squire of Presbyterian inclination, is one of the best-preserved examples of early Dissenting architecture in England.
- Current Archaeology
Nov 2, 2006 · Church ownership stays . . . uncertain. THE THREAT to shift the historic ownership of England’s 16,000 churches from parishes to dioceses has been lifted, after a working group decided that it would cause too much trouble. But it turns out that nobody owns the parish churches, anyway.
Mar 4, 2022 · 4 March 2022. England is a land of churches and parishes. How did we get them? You might suppose that some saintly Anglo-Saxon bishop thought that they were a good idea, and introduced them. You would be wrong. The earliest English churches (up to AD 900) were minsters, each of which served large areas of the countryside.
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