Excavation of the hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge, North Yorkshire

Bibliographic Data

ID11616312
AuthorsPeter Cardwell (corresponding author), Zoë C Chundun, Zoe Chundun, Sarah Costley, Jackie Hall, John W Hanson (0000-0003-4480-4791), John Hanson (0000-0003-1116-6324), Jacqueline P Huntley, Jacqueline Huntley, Caroline Jamfrey, Robert S Maxwell (0000-0002-0380-7382), Robert Maxwell, Greg Speed, Roger Simpson, Sue Stallibrass
Year1995
Volume152
Issue1
Pages109-245
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00665983.1995.11021431
OpenAlexW1974763312
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited17

Rescue excavation between 1988 and 1990 in advance of river erosion examined a substantial part of the small medieval rural hospital of St Giles by Brompton Bridge and later post-medieval farm. Established in the latter half of the twelfth century for the infirm, including lepers, the hospital layout consisted of a detached stone chapel adjacent to the river crossing, with a timber hall to the west. This hall was destroyed by fire, and a sequence of timber buildings were then constructed in adjacent areas. By the fifteenth century these structures also included a stone building, possibly a refectory. The first small chapel was replaced in the thirteenth century by a larger structure, which went through a period of expansion and then subsequent contraction by the fifteenth century. Only in the fourteenth century were a hall, probably a guesthouse or the master's lodgings, and dovecote built adjacent to the chapel. The cemetery to the south of the chapel was partially examined. The site appears to have been a largely economically self-sufficient unit with an attached farm. The hospital was abandoned during the latter half of the fifteenth century, but the site and some of the buildings were subsequently reoccupied as a farm from the mid-seventeenth century. The farmhouse underwent conversion from a longhouse to a house of hearth-passage plan in the early eighteenth century. The former chapel was reused as a byre and additional stables constructed. The farm was moved to its present location to the south in the mid-eighteenth century and the former hospital site finally abandoned

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art history · Chapel · Excavation · Fifteenth · Hearth · Construction Engineering and Safety · Geophysical Methods and Applications · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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