Maison Dieu, Faversham

Maison Dieu ('House of God') is a hospital, monastery, hostel, retirement home and Royal lodge commissioned by Henry III in 1234.The timber framed building is located beside what is now the A2 road in Faversham, Kent. In 1245, 'Robert de Bathel', the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, in Canterbury, granted to the brethren of this hospital, wearing the habit, and the diseased who happened to die here, but to none else, the right of burial. In 1384, on a taxation, the revenues of this hospital were valued at the church of Hedcorn, at 13l 6s 8d. In 1950, it became a Grade II* listed building.

Maison Dieu, Faversham

Maison Dieu ('House of God') is a hospital, monastery, hostel, retirement home and Royal lodge commissioned by Henry III in 1234.The timber framed building is located beside what is now the A2 road in Faversham, Kent. In 1245, 'Robert de Bathel', the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, in Canterbury, granted to the brethren of this hospital, wearing the habit, and the diseased who happened to die here, but to none else, the right of burial. In 1384, on a taxation, the revenues of this hospital were valued at the church of Hedcorn, at 13l 6s 8d. In 1950, it became a Grade II* listed building.