| French Hospital (La Providence) | |
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Frenchhospitalrochestermain.jpg) French Hospital (La Providence), Rochester, Kent. Main elevation Photograph by Tim Rawle | |
| Location | 41 La Providence, Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°23′18″N 0°30′18″E / 51.3884°N 0.5051°E |
| Founded | 1718 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Designated | 19 February 1970 |
| Reference no. | 1116336 |
The French Hospital was founded in 1718 in Finsbury on behalf of poor French Protestants and their descendants residing in Great Britain. In the 1860s it moved into the spectacular purpose-built hospital designed by Robert Lewis Roumieu in Victoria Park, Hackney, and then in the 1940s moved out of London to Compton's Lea, Horsham, West Sussex. Since 1959 it has been located in Rochester, Kent and today provides almshouse accommodation for Huguenot descendants.[1]
- ^ Website of the French Hospital, Rochester, Kent.