Hospital - but only in name

Sir William Turner’s Hospital at Kirkleatham. Founded in 1676.

I knew it was close to the Kirkleatham Museum and as we headed to the cafe there for lunch today it seemed a good idea to get some images in the camera for the summer challenge at Camera Club. 

A couple of my subjects are windows; architecture; old; and a number of others these might work for.

Anyway, this is the main part of the building as you drive in through the ornate gates. The domed tower over the chapel. It was never a hospital in the medical sense of the word, it was the old fashioned sense of hospitality. Build as almshouses for 10 women and 10 men and up to 20 orphaned boys and girls. It’s now grade 1 listed. 

Still operating as almshouses, run as a private charitable trust. It also has some very interesting additional features which I shall pop in extras. The two statues signify which side was for the women, which for the men!