More information : [NAME TL 14400557] ST JULIAN'S HOSPITAL [G.T.] (site of) (1)
Hospital of St Julian, St Alban's founded 1119-46, Dissolved 1505. For lepers, men only. "For a master and leper brethren. In 1344 the hospital was reconsituted by the abbot of St Albans for five priests, one acting as master, and six leper brethren, under a strict rule. In the second half of the fifteenth century, there were possibly no lepers here and in 1505 the hospital was annexed to St Alban's Abbey." (2) After the dissolution, St. Julian's Hospital was granted to Sir Richard Lee. In the C17th it was sold to John Ellis, who pulled down the monastic buildings. (3) There are no visible remains of this hospital, the dedication is perpetuated in the name of an adjacent new school. (4)
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