St. Leonard's Hospital
Title
St. Leonard's Hospital
Dates
Founded 1193-1216; Premonstratensian from 1376; dissolved ca. 1500
Dedication
Leonard
Affiliation
Medieval Diocese
Circary
History
St Leonard’s Hospital was founded by Eustace de Vescy 1193-1216. The hospital was an independent religious establishment until 1376 when it was annexed to the Premonstratensian Alnwick Abbey. It appears to have fallen into disuse before the Reformation.
The buried remains of the hospital were partially uncovered in the 1840s and include a chapel, well, hospital buildings and a burial ground. The upstanding remains are largely those of the lower walls of the chapel and a domestic range to the south which were reconstructed in 1848.
The buried remains of the hospital were partially uncovered in the 1840s and include a chapel, well, hospital buildings and a burial ground. The upstanding remains are largely those of the lower walls of the chapel and a domestic range to the south which were reconstructed in 1848.
Status
Hospital
Reference
Bibliography
Dickson, W.M. “Notice Relative to the Hospital of St. Leonard in the Parish of Alnwick.” Archaeologia Aeliana 3 (1844): 48–50. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Archaeologia_Aeliana_Or_Miscellaneous_Tr/jaNUAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Archaeologia%20Aeliana%20dickson&pg=RA1-PA48&printsec=frontcover.
———. “The Hospital of St. Leonard in the Parish of Alnwick.” Archaeologia Aeliana, New Series, 1 (1855): 48–49. https://books.google.com/books?id=4qVUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48.
Dugdale, William. “St. Leonard’s Hospital at Alnwick, Northumberland.” In Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with Their Dependencies, in England and Wales, 6, Part 2:771. London: James Bohn, 1846. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112109884392?urlappend=%3Bseq=197%3Bownerid=13510798902174769-225.
Image Credit
Remains of St Leonard's Hospital, 2012. Wikimedia.
Files
Collection
Citation
“St. Leonard's Hospital,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/766.
Geolocation
Item Relations
| This Item | DependentOn | Item: Alnwick |