Inside St Nicholas's Church, Harbledown
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Inside St Nicholas's Church, Harbledown
Image: © pam fray Taken: 2 Mar 2023
Next to the old belfry steps is a 14th century chest, the lid is carved out of a solid piece of oak. St Nicholas's Church, a late 11th century building with 12th and 14th century additions, is listed Grade I. Built for St Nicholas's Hospital, England's first leper hospital founded by Archbishop Lanfranc in about 1084, this is a rare and early example of a medieval leper church built as part of the original St Nicholas's Hospital, a leper hospital, probably the first in England, founded in about 1084 by Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury and in operation until the end of the 14th century.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.282725
Longitude
1.053514