Richard Curteis stone plaque

This stone commemorative plaque records: Curteis Place In 1494 the 9th Henry The 7th Richard Curteis of Grantham, Merchant, by deed of enfeoffment ratified by his will in 1508 gave to the commonality of Grantham a peice of land called The Common Plot. Situate in Spitalgate containing about eight acres also some houses to which one other was added by purchase in 1835 when the whole with the exception of the two on the north were taken down and on their site this and the three intermediate ones erected. John Brooks, Alderman Rich.d Briggs. Rich.d Burton. Rob.t Turner. John Green. Key Bearers.

Richard Curteis was a 15th-century merchant from Grantham who donated land and houses to the town, establishing an early form of communal property that has endured for centuries, significantly impacting Grantham's community development.