St Margaret's Almshouses

St Margaret's Almshouses are part of a 12th-century leper colony in Taunton, Somerset, England.

The building was founded as a leper hospital in the 12th century, Somerset Historical Environmental Records dates it to between 1174 and 1180 AD.

[1] Glastonbury Abbey acquired the patronage of the hospital in 1280 and Abbot Beere rebuilt it as almshouses in the early 16th century.

In the late 1930s it was converted into a hall of offices for the Rural Community Council and accommodation for the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen.

[4] It is a long freestanding single storey building, built mostly of local shillet stone.