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Hospital, former
Hospital, former
The former Hospitium of St John stands to the north of St Laurence's Church, at the edge of the churchyard. The north aisle of the church formerly served as the hospital's chapel. The building is of flint and limestone rubble with ashlar facings, and several carved stones, presumably from the abbey, are incorporated into the rubble walls.
Hospital, former
High Wycombe is the second largest town in the traditional county (after Milton Keynes) with a population of 92,300 in 2001. It is a market town in the south of the county, 29 miles WNW of Charing Cross. The hospital stands on the old London road (A40), and comprises the ruins of the Infirmary Hall; an aisled hall originally of four bays running N-S. In 1767 it was reduced in length at the S end for the widening of the London road, and most of the other standing buildings were demolished. What remains is a roofless structure with the lower part of the outer N wall standing, and two bays of each arcade along with the third pier of the W arcade without its arches. The ruins were consolidated with brick supports in the late 19thc, and mortar repairs were made to the foundations in the 20thc.
Hospital, former
Wilton is a civil parish about 3 miles NW of Salisbury standing at confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder. Incorporated into the buildings around St John’s Square are the remains of a hospital founded in the late 12thc. Although several alterations and restorations were carried out from the 16thc, some remains of the medieval structures have survived. These includes a circular pier with what may be the remains of a scalloped capital.
Hospital, former
This remarkable buiilding, located at the corner of Sprowston Road and Gilman Road in Norwich, is now part of a modern care complex. The remains of the infirmary hall of a hospital founded by the first bishop, Herbert de Losinga (1096-1119) to the north of the city beyond the Magdalene Gate, its east end was demolished after the Dissolution. Its two carved doorways probably survive from the original structure. Badly weathered, apparently reinserted in their present location, restored and partly reassembled, they bear the only Romanesque sculpture at the site. Their significance resides in their dated context and their ornament, for they are decorated with distinctive geometric motifs also occurring on voussoir fragments found to have been re-used when the original 12thc cloister of Bishop Herbert's cathedral was rebuilt in the 14thc.