Sedgefield Heritage Trail
You are at the site of the Almshouses (16)
The two shops built into the bank below the church yard all all that remain of a row of buildings which ran the full length of the church yard. They included Coopers Almshouses which were built as a single-storey block of brick cottages in 1703 to house deserving old people. Thomas Cooper was a surgeon who bequeathed money for this purpose. Towards Cross Hill there used to be an endowed school founded in 1596 for poor children. A replacement school, which also housed the village gaol, was erected in 1826, but that too has been demolished.
The two shops built into the bank below the church yard all all that remain of a row of buildings which ran the full length of the church yard. They included Coopers Almshouses which were built as a single-storey block of brick cottages in 1703 to house deserving old people. Thomas Cooper was a surgeon who bequeathed money for this purpose. Towards Cross Hill there used to be an endowed school founded in 1596 for poor children. A replacement school, which also housed the village gaol, was erected in 1826, but that too has been demolished.
