Site of former Knights Hospitallers Commandery
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Site of former Knights Hospitallers Commandery
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 1 Mar 2008
Adjacent to > Image; here the Knights Hospitallers collected alms for pilgrims to Jerusalem and the military duties that arose from their care and shelter. The church houses East Anglia's oldest identifiable coffin slabs, both bearing the cross marks of the Knights Templar, and presumed to mark the graves of the widow of Roger, Earl of Clare, who founded the Commandery in about 1193, and their son James > Image
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Image Location
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52.583372
Longitude
0.879489