10 X 10 CANOPY FRAME

Entrance to the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, founded through the benefaction of Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliff (d. 1692) and built in 1695 by William Ogbourne, master carpenter, for the Corporation of Trinity House. The residents were '28 decayed masters and commanders of ships or the widows of such'. The almshouses are in two facing rows, one storey high, with basements, and a wooden block and bracketed eaves cornice. At the Whitechapel Road end of the building these two rows are linked by a brick wall of convex and concave curves containing iron gates and wrought iron railings. The end of each row of the almshouses terminates on the street with an elevation of two storeys in brick with stone dressings, rusticated angled stone quoins, a modillioned cornice and a central cartouche with an inscription (as seen here). At ground floor there are two windows, blind on the left, but, on the right (as seen here), with flush shutter boxes and stone architraves. Both pairs of windows are decorated with grotesque masks as keystones. Above, in each case, there is a brick niche with a stone architrave set in a gable with a pediment. The ships on the copings are fiberglass replicas of a marble pair carved by Robert Jones (originals in the Museum of London).

Entrance to the almshouses at Trinity Green, Whitechapel, founded through the benefaction of Captain Henry Mudd of Ratcliff (d. 1692) and built in 1695 by William Ogbourne, master carpenter, for the Corporation of Trinity House. The residents were '28 decayed masters and commanders of ships or the widows of such'. The almshouses are in two facing rows, one storey high, with basements, and a wooden block and bracketed eaves cornice. The end of each row of the almshouses on Whitechapel Road terminates with an elevation of two storeys in brick with stone dressings, rusticated angled stone quoins, a modillioned cornice and a central cartouche with an inscription (as seen here). At ground floor there are two windows, blind on the left (as here), but, on the right, with flush shutter boxes and stone architraves. Both pairs of windows are decorated with grotesque masks as keystones. Above, in each case, there is a brick niche with a stone architrave set in a gable with a pediment. The ships on the copings are fiberglass replicas of a marble pair carved by Robert Jones (originals in the Museum of London).