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Description: | THE HOSPITAL OF ST LEONARD, FOR TEN POOR PEOPLE WAS ESTABLISHED AT SKIRBECK IN ABOUT 1220. IT WAS GIVEN TO THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS IN ABOUT 1230 AND BECAME KNOWN AS ST JOHN THE BAPTIST'S HOSPITAL. IN 1338 IT SUSTAINED 20 PEOPLE IN THE INFIRMARY AND 40 AT THE GATE. THE HOUSE WAS LATER UNITED TO THE PRECEPTORY AT MALTBY. IN 1542 IT WAS GRANTED TO CHARLES, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. THE HOSPITAL APPEARS TO HAVE CONTINUED AS AN ALMSHOUSE, AS IN 1608 ST LEONARD'S HOSPITAL AND THE BEDE OF ST LEONARD IS MENTIONED IN 1656.
ACCORDING TO THOMPSON THE SITE OF THE HOSPITAL WAS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE MAUD FOSTER DRAIN, IMMEDIATELY OPPOSITE HOSPITAL BRIDGE AT TF33114492. {5}
THE BEDEHOUSES ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE DRAIN WHICH WAS CUT IN 1568 - SEE 12686 CONSISTED OF TEN SMALL TENEMENTS, EACH WITH ITS SMALL GARDEN.{1}{2}{3}{4}{5}
AN OLD HOUSE, KNOWN AS JERUSALEM HOUSE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN BUILT OF MATERIALS FROM THE HOSPITAL, RATHER THAN TO HAVE FORMED PART OF THE ORIGINAL BUILDINGS.{1}
THE CLERK TO THE ST LEONARD'S TRUST STATES THAT THE DEEDS REFER TO THE PRESENT BEDEHOUSES AS STANDING ON THE SITE OF THE ORIGINAL HOSPITAL, AND HE CONSIDERS THOMPSON TO BE INCORRECT. JERUSALEM HOUSE IS MENTIONED IN THE DEEDS WITHOUT CITING INFORMATION. AND THE CLERK IS OF THE OPINION THAT IT WAS DEMOLISHED WITH OTHER TRUST PROPERTY IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY. THE PRESENT ALMSHOUSES (STILL IN USE AS SUCH) ARE DATED 1874: THERE IS A MODERN EXTENSION TO THE EAST KNOWN AS ST LEONARD'S CLOSE.{1}
A group of ten almshouses, formerly St Leonard's Hospital which were built in 1874. The buildings are constructed of red brick, with polychromatic yellow brick and tile bands. The Welsh slate roof is arranged in bands of blue/grey and purple. There are two gable stacks, four paired ridge stacks, with brick ribbed sides and dog-toothed oversailing courses. The almshouses are arranged as a central block of four, with a detached block of two at each end.
The buildings are single stories with chamfered plinths, sill bands, head bands of tiles, overhanging fascias and bargeboards. The central four-unit block is of eight bays, with a central gable containing the datestone. A central gabled porch with double doorways is flanked by two three-light casements, a further gabled porch with double doorway and a single three-light casement. The end two-unit blocks each have a gabled porch to the ends, with a single doorway, with two two-light casements between. The porches have a low buttress with a chamfered offset flanking the entrance, pointed brick arch and planked inner doors. The windows have yellow brick reveals, painted stone sills and flush chamfered lintels.
The almshouses were built for ten poor men and their wives.{6} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1874 - 1950 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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