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Summary

A hospital for leprous women founded by 1232; possibly the origin of St Mary's almshouses

Associated Legal Designations or Protected Status

• Conservation Area: Newbury Town Centre

Other Statuses and Cross-References

• Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 01389.10.000
  
• National Monuments Record No.: SU 46 NE 263
  SU 47 67

Monument Type(s):

• LEPER HOSPITAL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full Description

IN 1232 ROYAL LETTERS OF PROTECTION WERE ISSUED TO A HOSPITAL FOR LEPROUS WOMEN IN NEWBURY; NO OTHER REFERENCE TO THIS HOSPITAL HAS BEEN FOUND. POSS CONVERTED INTO ST MARY'S ALMSHOUSES WHICH STOOD ON ST MARY'S HILL- SEE SMR 1391.04.800

A possible academic duplication has occurred between the women's leper hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Newbury, founded pre 1232, and the hospital of the Blessed Mary, whose sisters were recorded in a deed of 1375 <1>. The latter hospital may have become St Mary's Almshouses for six poor women which was existent in 1604, and was then considered ancient <3>.

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