St Leonards Hospital (remains) [5 photos] in SE6052

Shared description

St Leonards Hospital (remains)

The ruins of St. Leonards Hospital only hint at the significance of the Hospital in medieval York. Founded soon after the Norman Conquest, it was believed to be the largest medieval hospital in the north of England.
Remains of the hospital's undercroft can be accessed from the Museum Gardens, just to the right of the Museum Street entrance and contains some Roman and Medieval stonework.
The hospital was erected on the site of the former hospital St. Peters which was severely damaged in a fire in 1137. It was closely associated with the Minster, sharing the same grounds because it was so large. It was a self-sufficient building until the Reformation resulted in the religious aspects of hospitals being victimised and consequently St. Leonards was largely destroyed. This left York without a hospital from the time of Henry VIII to 1740.
Grade I listed. Link

by N Chadwick

Created: Tue, 24 Jan 2017, Updated: Tue, 24 Jan 2017

5 images use this description:

SE6052 : St Leonard's Hospital, the chapel by Alan Murray-Rust

2018

SE6052 : St Leonards Hospital (remains) by N Chadwick

2016

SE6052 : St Leonards (rems) by N Chadwick

2016

Shared descriptions

This shared description

Shared descriptions are specifically licensed so that contributors can reuse them on their own images, without restriction.

About shared descriptions

These Shared Descriptions are common to multiple images.

For example, you can create a generic description for an object shown in a photo, and reuse the description on all photos of the object. All descriptions are public and shared between contributors, i.e. you can reuse a description created by others, just as they can use yours.