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St Mary Magdalene's Church, Gloucester
The 12th century chancel (with Norman arch) survives of this Leper Hospital Chapel in Hillview Gardens, in situ - unlike the two structures to the west, a medieval conduit and a preaching cross, both originally in the centre of the city. Restored in 1995 with a grant from English Heritage, this little structure is now boarded up and much vandalised, to the city's shame. The chancel arch was blocked when the nave was pulled down in 1867; inside there are two more Norman doorways re-erected from the nave North & South walls and a recumbent effigy of a Lady. (The Board with history and sketches is not vandalised!) (Commentary provided by Phil Draper) |
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