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Kirkgate. St Anthony's blockhouse clearly related to St. Anthony's Perceptory, a small monastic site. Records state that the blockhouse was razed to the ground in 1560. This apparently left the vaulted structures which still exist below Trinity House.
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of the sick, the poor and the widows and orphans of lost or captured mariners; and to care for aged mariners. The
Masters and Mariners of the Trinity House in the Kirkgate was the oldest and became the wealthiest of the
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Incorporation had sufficient funds to build a hospital at the Kirkgate. The basement and vaults of the 16th-century building were incorporated into the current building, which was designed by
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