Maldon’s medieval leper hospital

from Viewpoints – Placecloud (English) · host Johanna Dale

Tiptree United Kingdom The St Giles ruins are Maldon's only ancient scheduled monument. While in popular imagination medieval leper hospitals are thought of as places of exclusion, the truth is more complex and the community at St Giles was embedded in networks that stretched from the town centre out into the surrounding countryside.

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