Almshouse
（重定向自Alms house）
![Detail from a document connected with the foundation of Henry VII's chantry and almshouses at Westminster. The King sits in the Star Chamber and receives the Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham, Richard Fox, the Bishop of Westminster and clerics associated with Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral as well as the Lord Mayor of London](/Images/godic/202412/19/Royal_Charity_Performance0029.jpg")
![Drawing of almshouses in Rochford, 1787](/Images/godic/202412/19/Alms_house_rochford0029.jpg")
![Almshouses at the parish church of St John in Thaxted.](/Images/godic/202412/19/Thaxted_almshouses_windmill0029.jpg")
![The almshouse at Woburn, Bedfordshire](/Images/godic/202412/19/Alms_House,_Woburn0029.JPG")
Almshouses are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and are generally maintained by a charity or the trustees of a bequest.