Logo for Great Hospital online, click to go to the homepage

Overview

Here you will learn what the hospital was like in the medieval period. You will discover who founded it; how patients were treated; why it then had no doctors; and the importance of the high altar. You will also learn about the Reformation, what the hospital was like during its middle years, and what it is like now.

Photograph of the infirmary tower. Photographer, C.Bonfield

To begin your journey, just chose your time period on one of the links to the left.