{"id":25115,"date":"2006-05-19T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/05\/19\/the-tomkins-family\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:03:00","slug":"the-tomkins-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25115","title":{"rendered":"The Tomkins Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051901.jpg\" \/><br \/>OThis stone building at St Helens Wharf is now known as Fellows Court (or 60 East St Helens Street), and serves as offices for West Waddy, a well established Abingdon architect. But for a time in the 1700s the wharfside building was Tomkins Malthouse.<\/p>\n<p>The Tomkins family, as well as being maltsters were also builders and bankers. A number of notable buildings by the Tomkins family are listed in Pepys visit to Abingdon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051902.jpg\" \/><br \/>One member of this family, Mr. Benjamin Tomkins, departed this life on May the 1st 1732, and bequeathed money to set up alms houses for four men and four women.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag06\/06051903.jpg\" \/><br \/>The interesting difference about the Tomkins Almshouses on Ock Street, when compared to the older Almshouses near St Helens Church, was the Mr Tomkins stipulated they were &#8220;FOR BENEFIT OF POOR DISSENTERS OF ABINGDON AND FOR BAPTIST MINISTERS.&#8221; The Tomkins were also well known baptists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OThis stone building at St Helens Wharf is now known as Fellows Court (or 60 East St Helens Street), and serves as offices for West Waddy, a well established Abingdon architect. But for a time in the 1700s the wharfside building was Tomkins Malthouse. The Tomkins family, as well as being maltsters were also builders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}