[♦] PLATE XII.
PLAN OF THE LEPER HOSPITAL OF ST. GILES, LONDON
(a) GATE. (b) CHAPEL AND PARISH CHURCH. (c) HOSPITAL MANSION. (d) POOL CLOSE. (e) ORCHARD. (f) COTTAGES. (g) HOUSES, ETC., OF DR. BORDOY. (h) GARDENS. (i) WALLS. (l) GALLOWS.
THE CHURCH OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS
(a) PARISH CHURCH. (b) HOSPITAL CHURCH. (c) BELL TOWER. (d, e) ALTARS. (f) ST. MICHAEL’S CHAPEL. (g) SCREEN DIVIDING CHURCHES. (h) WESTERN ENTRANCE.]
iii. GROUP OF BUILDINGS AND CHAPEL
(a) Leper-house.—Although originally lepers had a common dormitory, the plan began to be superseded as early as the thirteenth century, when a visitation of St. Nicholas’, York, shows that each inmate had a room to himself. The rule at Ilford was that lepers should eat and sleep together “so far as their infirmity permitted.” The dormitory afterwards gave place to tenements. The Harbledown settlement in the eighteenth century is shown in Pl. II, the buildings being named by Duncombe, master and historian of the hospital. Facing the “hospital-chapel” were the “frater-house” and domestic quarters. The chantry-house by the gateway was, doubtless, the residence of the staff. (See p. [147].) The original dwellings must have been more extensive, for they sheltered a hundred lepers. The view of Sherburn (Durham) may reproduce the later mediæval design. (Fig. 21.) In some cases a cloister ran round the buildings. The statutes of St. Julian’s leper-hospital ordained “that there be no standing in the corridor (penticio), which extends in p118 length before the houses of the brothers in the direction of the king’s road.”
[♦ ] 21. SHERBURN HOSPITAL, NEAR DURHAM