Where To Stream Time Team Season 8 Episode 13
The Leper Hospital - Winchester, Hampshire
- Aired April 1, 2001
- 60 Min
- Rated 9.5
- Number 185 Of 221 Rated Episodes
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. Possibly complicating the search for the hospital, the entire field was used as an army camp during WWI, however, Time Team turns this to their advantage, as the medieval well that served the lepers was reused, with a wind pump, by the...