Leicester Hospital, Warwickdetails

Leicester Hospital, Warwick

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This is now written as Leycester Hospital. It was originally a chapel, built in 1126 (yes, nine hundred years ago).

The building was later used by trade guilds in the city of Warwick, but was bought by the first Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, in 1571 and turned into an almshouse, or housing for the poor, in this case for injured soldiers.

It is still an almshouse 450 years later, but is now also open to the public:

Lord Leycester Web site

The engraving here is signed Whymper, presumably Josiah Whymper or someone at his firm of engravers.

almsgiving, poor, tudor architecture, tudor buildings, medieval architecture, hospitals, exteriors

Warwick, Warwickshire, England

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