An old English hospital : St. Mary's Chichester / by J. Cavis-Brown.

  • Cavis-Brown, John.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An old English hospital : St. Mary's Chichester / by J. Cavis-Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    An Old English Hospital: S. Mary's, Chichester. The ancient City of Chichester is full of interesting and picturesque memorials of the past. There is, first of all, the Cathedral exhibiting in its structure the architectural ability of almost every period, but also pos- sessing original charters and grants stretching right back to a.d. 780 and specimens of English plate from a.d. 1125. Then there are the old KXTEHIOK OF ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL. city walls still nearly perfect, the dedication-stone of a Roman Temple with its valuable inscription, the numerous small but ancient Parish Churches, the incomparable Market Cross, &c. But perhaps most in- teresting of all, and in its way now unique in this country, is the Hospi-