Time Team - Season 8 Episode 13 The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
Outside of the city boundaries of Winchester, in what is today known as Hospital Field, once stood the St Mary Magdalen Leper Hospital. Probably founded in around 1140 by Henry of Blois, the superb chapel was recorded in engravings as a ruin in the 17th century. A large portion of the field was used as an army camp during WWI. A 180 metre well is discovered. Other trenches find the remains of the chapel, the Master's house, and the almshouses, as well as the cemetery, where a skull showing signs of leprosy is found. Within the chapel, an unusual double burial appears to be, as found in the records, the former Master of the hospital, followed almost 50 years later by his daughter. Victor sculpts a bust of a leper based on a skull excavated elsewhere. Nicholas Orme explains how lepers were viewed in the Middle Ages.
Year: 2024
Genre: Documentary, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: More4, Channel 4, YouTube
Director: Tim Taylor
Cast: Gus Casely-Hayford, Natalie Haynes, Carenza Lewis, John Gater, Stewart Ainsworth, Helen Geake
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First Air Date: Jan 16, 1994
Last Air date: Apr 07, 2024
Season: 21 Season
Episode: 239 Episode
Runtime: 50 minutes
IMDb: 7.10/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 18.967
Language: English
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An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery - Normanton, Lincolnshire
The Man Who Bought a Castle - Alderton, Northamptonshire
The Celtic Spring - Llygadwy, Powys
A Waltham Villa - Waltham Field, Whittington, Gloucestershire
The Lost Viaduct - Blaenavon, Torfaen
A Palace Sold for Scrap - Rycote, Thame, Oxfordshire
An Iron-Age Roundhouse - Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire
The Bone Caves - Alveston, Gloucestershire
The Inter-City Villa - Basildon, Berkshire
Holy Island - Lindisfarne, Northumberland
The Leaning Tower of Bridgnorth - Bridgnorth, Shropshire
Three Tales of Canterbury - Canterbury, Kent
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire