St James and Mary Magdalene Hopsital Chichester.3D Model
The hospital of St James and Mary Magdalene. Chichester. U.K.
Travelling along Spitalfield Lane, you might expect to come across a hospital, as the word Spitel, in Old English, means ‘lands with a hospital’. The hospital referred to is the hospital of St James and Mary Magdalene.
On the corner of Spitalfield Lane and St Pancras there is a picture-postcard cottage in a modern housing development, which has a commemorative plaque on the wall with the following words:
“These are the sacred remains of St James’s Hospital which was founded in the reign of henry the first for the reception of persons afflicted with the leprosy.”
Part of the cottage dates back to 1118 when the leper hospital, ‘leprosarium’ or ‘lazaretto’ was founded. Queen Matilda, wife of King Henry I, is credited with establishing the hospital.
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