Monument record MLI85919 - St Lazarus leper hospital, Carlton-Le-Moorland

Summary

St Lazarus leper hospital, Carlton-Le-Moorland

Type and Period (1)

  • (Medieval - 1180 AD to 1539 AD?)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

62997 The St Lazarus leper hospital was founded pre 1301. {1} A Lazar hospital was founded on his lands in Carlton-Le-Moorland by Elias de Amundville (probably because his daughter was a leper, and he had seen and received great favours from the brethren of St Lazarus in the Holy Land during the third crusade), where the brothers of Burton Lazars were to maintain and clothe four lepers probably from 1180. {2}{3}

Sources/Archives (3)

  •  Index: SMR file. Carlton-Le-Moorland. SK 95 NW.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: D. Knowles and R.N. Hadcock. 1971. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales - Second Edition. pp.317, 352.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Dorothy M. Owen. 1971. Church and Society in Medieval England. pp.51,55,123.

Map

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Location

Grid reference Not recorded
Civil Parish CARLTON LE MOORLAND, NORTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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