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| Keywords: "The Helyar Almshouses were erected between 1640 and 1660 by William Helyar, Archdeacon of Barnstable, of Coker Court, East Coker, Somerset, England. The building work was interrupted by the plague of 1645, and the English Civil War and the almshouses were not completed until 1660, by which time, the Archdeacon was dead, and the work was completed by his grandson." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helyar_Almshouses" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helyar_Almshouses</a> "[The almshouses] were for eleven women and one man (much the same as today), and they are held by Parish Trustees. The last of the Almshouses, nearest the Church, was restored in 2009. For a long time this last house was used as a Chapel where daily prayers were said by the single man who lived in one of the other Almshouses." <a href="http://www.eastcokerchurch.org.uk/history.html" rel="nofollow">www.eastcokerchurch.org.uk/history.html</a> | ||||
