hospitals

Elizabeth Woodville’s Wiltshire Retreat

Feb 11, 2023

anniversaries, battles, buildings, law, religion

attainders, Chantry chapels, daughters of Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, Farleigh Hungerford, Hexham, Heytesbury, hospitals, Hungerfords, John Nesfield, proclamations, Richard III, sanctuary, Westminster Abbey, Wiltshire

Elizabeth Woodville left sanctuary with her daughters on March 1, 1484, after Richard III swore a public oath that she and her daughters would be unharmed and that he would find the girls suitable matches. But where did she go then? Her daughters were, at least part time, welcome at court, but ‘Dame Grey’ as…
THE MEDIEVAL PRIORY AND CHURCH OF ST MARY SPITAL

Sep 18, 2021

archaeology, buildings, religion

Agas map, Antony van den Wyngaerde, Bishopsgate, Dissolution of the Monasteries, gresham college, Henry VIII, hospitals, London, Museum of London Archaeology, Priories, Robert de la Naperie., Sir robert gresham, St. Mary Spital

REBLOGGED FROM A MEDIEVAL POTPOURRI sparkypus.com Artists impression of how St Mary Spital may have appeared before the Dissolution. Museum of London. Artist Faith Vardy. St. Mary Spital Augustinian Priory and Hospital covered the area known today as Spital Square. Standing outside the city walls it was bordered from the west by Bishopsgate Street…
ROYAL PECULIARS AND THEIR PECULIARITIES

Feb 12, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion

“Princes”, Anne Boleyn, Blitz, Catherine Howard, Chapel of St. John the Baptist, Chapel Royal, Diana Princess of Wales, Edward IV, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Wydeville, executions, George Duke of Bedford, Hampton Court, Hans Holbein, Henry VII Lady Chapel, hospitals, Jane, John of Gaunt, Lord Guildford Dudley, Margaret of Salisbury, Mary of York, Matilda of Blois, Peasants’ Revolt, Prince Louis of Cambridge, Queen’s Chapel, Royal Foundation of St. Katherine, Royal Peculiars, Savoy Palace, Simon Sudbury, St. george’s Chapel, St. James Palace, St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter ad Vincula, Stephen, Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri sparkypus.com The glorious ceiling of the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court. Photo James Brittain . Historic Royal Palaces. The main reason, and perhaps the only reason, why the bones in the urn in Westminster Abbey supposed to be those of the sons of Edward IV known as the “Princes” in the Tower, Edward of Westminster and…
Lovell’s Hospital in Brackley

Dec 5, 2019

buildings, religion

Brackley, churches, Francis Viscount Lovell, hospitals, John Lovell VII, Magdalene College, Maude Holland, Richard III, Robert le Bassu, William Lord Lovell, William Waynflete

Recently I attended a family gathering in the little old town of Brackley. I was intrigued by the medieval chapel and adjacent buildings in the centre of town, which are now part of Magdalen School (unfortunately all private; you can’t explore them). By their appearance, I guessed they might have once been monastic buildings and…

hospitals

Elizabeth Woodville’s Wiltshire Retreat

THE MEDIEVAL PRIORY AND CHURCH OF ST MARY SPITAL

ROYAL PECULIARS AND THEIR PECULIARITIES

Lovell’s Hospital in Brackley