The Kneeling Monk, Medieval Herb Garden, Norton Priory, Cheshire
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The Kneeling Monk, Medieval Herb Garden, Norton Priory, Cheshire
Image: © Matt Harrop Taken: 14 Aug 2016
The Kneeling Monk sculpture, in Scottish red sandstone, by Thomas Dagnall overlooks the medieval herb gardens at Norton Priory. The present garden at Norton Priory was made as part of the BBC’s ‘Hidden Gardens’ programme. The skeletons in the Museum collection were examined to discover what diseases they had. This information was then used to choose herbs that would have been used to treat these diseases. Some of the most common diseases had specific herbs to treat them. The most common diseases among the skeletons uncovered at Norton Priory were: · Tuberculosis (Symptoms: Coughing blood, fever, sweats, large lymph nodes, boils, scabs). · Leprosy (Symptoms: Blindness, scabs, swollen feet, clawed hands, gangrene) · Paget’s Disease (Symptoms: Pain, soft bones, fractures, swollen skull) · Rickets (Symptoms: Nonfatal bone pain and teeth defects). The garden was planted using plans from other monastic sites. There is room between each bed for one canon to kneel and another to walk behind.
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Image Location
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53.341245
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-2.678977