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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...
- nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Rutland/Lyddington% Historic England. "The Bedehouse (1264528)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 August 2015...
- and gradually the use of mortifications declined. Sometimes a hospital, Bedehouse, or care home was given money directly to further its purposes. The City...
- 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...
- back to the 12th century. From c. 1144 to about 1650 many hospitals, bedehouses and maisons Dieu were built in Scotland. There are many terms that apply...
- Mary (1543). An unidentified bedehouse is noted in 1611 which may have been pre-Reformation in origin. Other bedehouses recorded are all post-reformation...
- Rectory (1869) WrootRectory (1878) Louth – Orme Almshouses (1885) Louth, Bedehouses Gospelgate. Almshouses on Gospelgate, founded in 1551 and sometimes referred...
- house of prayer for twelve poor men and two poor women. The Hospital, Bedehouse or Domus Dei was established in 1475 during reign of Edward IV as a home...