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- St Mary Spital founded in 1197 by Walter Brunus, a wealthy merchant and citizen of London, and his wife Roisia, stood on the east side of Bishopsgate Street on land where once stood a Roman cemetery.
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Apr 23, 2021 · St Mary Spital founded in 1197 by Walter Brunus, a wealthy merchant and citizen of London, and his wife Roisia, stood on the east side of Bishopsgate Street on land where once stood a Roman cemetery.
St Mary Spital Coat of arms attributed to Walter Brunus (or Brown), the founder of the priory in 1197. In 1197, a priory, The New Hospital of St Mary without Bishopsgate, latterly known as St Mary Spital, was founded by Walter Brunus and his wife Roisia, and built on the site of the cemetery.
The view of St Mary Spital from Wyngaerde's "Panorama of London in 1543." The cemetery at St Mary Spital is responsible for providing some of the most significant bioarchaeological insights about health in medieval London, with a total of 10,516 bodies unearthed.
Apr 21, 2020 · The hospital and priory of St Mary of Bethlehem (popularly known as ‘Bedlam’) was founded in 1247 on the other, west, side of Bishopsgate Street, nearer the city gate, to provide lodging for the poor.
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Walter and Rose Brown founded the hospital and priory known as St Mary Spital in 1197. The hospital was closed in 1538 and its buildings were adapted as homes and workshops in the first of a series of changes of use that came to characterise the district.
The grounds of St Mary Spital are located on what were then the fringes of medieval London in an area referred to as The spitel Fyeld on the Civitas Londinium, or Agas, map, now known as Spitalfields. Walter Brutus, a wealthy merchant and a citizen of London, and his wife Roisia originally founded an Augustinian priory and infirmary in 1197.
Spitalfields takes its name from the hospital and priory, St. Mary’s Spittel which was founded in 1197. Lying in the heart of the East End, it is an area known for its spirit and a strong sense of community.
