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ST JULIANS HOSPITAL

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Hospital for sick and leprous brothers founded by Abbot Geoffrey between 1119-46. It was still called a hospital for lepers and sick persons in 1470, but it is doubtful that there were lepers or sick thereafter. Laymen apparently intruded themselves from 1492, and in 1505 it was annexed by St Alban's Abbey.

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[NAME TL 14400557] ST JULIAN'S HOSPITAL [G.T.] (site of) (1)

Hospital of St Julian, St Alban's founded 1119-46, Dissolved 1505. For lepers, men only. "For a master and leper brethren. In 1344 the hospital was reconsituted by the abbot of St Albans for five priests, one acting as master, and six leper brethren, under a strict rule. In the second half of the fifteenth century, there were possibly no lepers here and in 1505 the hospital was annexed to St Alban's Abbey." (2)

After the dissolution, St. Julian's Hospital was granted to Sir
Richard Lee. In the C17th it was sold to John Ellis, who pulled
down the monastic buildings. (3)

There are no visible remains of this hospital, the dedication is perpetuated in the name of an adjacent new school. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1937-9.

( 2) by David Knowles and R Neville Hadcock 1953 Medieval religious houses : England and Wales

Page(s)303

( 3) General reference

"Historical Records of St. Alban's" 1888, p.80 (A.E. Gibbs)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FDC 02-OCT-75

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