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The Medieval Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate Suburb - Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007 (Hardcover)
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The Medieval Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital and the Bishopsgate Suburb - Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991-2007 (Hardcover)
Series: MOLA Monograph, 59
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London's Spitalfields Market was the location of one of the city's
largest archaeological excavations, carried out by MOLA between
1991 and 2007. This book presents the archaeological and
documentary evidence for medieval activity here, on the
north-eastern fringe of the historic city, and the site of the
Augustinian priory and hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate,
later known as St Mary Spital. Large areas of the medieval precinct
have been explored, making this by far the most intensively
investigated medieval hospital, and one of the most extensively
investigated monastic establishments, in Britain. Founded in 1197,
rebuilt on a larger scale and refounded in 1235, the hospital
catered primarily for London's sick poor. A pre-existing extramural
and extraparochial cemetery became the priory's principal cemetery.
As the priory continued to attract patrons and wealth, it expanded
its precinct and carried out major building programmes. By the 15th
century the small hospital had become one of the largest
Augustinian priories in southern England. Medical treatment in the
14th century is illustrated by remarkable evidence from the canons'
infirmary with its attached pharmacy; a trend towards
secularisation in the 14th and 15th centuries is shown by the
hamlet of timber houses and workshops that grew around the
cemetery. An exceptional survival was the charnel crypt of the
14th-century cemetery chapel, which is preserved today under
Bishops Square.
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