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Historical sketches of old Charing. / The hospital and chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the monuments erected in her memory.

Chapter 1: HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF OLD CHARING
By Sir James Galloway
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A focused historical study traces the foundation, functions, and decline of a medieval convent and its attached hospital at Charing, showing how its identity derived from the famed Roncesvalles foundation in the Pyrenees. The narrative describes the community’s combined religious, military, and hospitaller roles, its service to pilgrims and travelers, patterns of patronage and endowment, the royal commemorations and monuments tied to a queen, and the institution’s fortunes through prosperity, plague, and eventual suppression. Maps, illustrations, and documentary excerpts support the account and highlight surviving records and local topography.

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Title: Historical sketches of old Charing.

Author: Sir James Galloway

Release date: November 9, 2022 [eBook #69321]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1914

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Fig. 1.
Charing Cross and the Chapel of St. Mary Roncevall in
the early part of the sixteenth century. (After Van den Wyngaerde.)

HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF OLD CHARING

The Hospital and Chapel of Saint
Mary Roncevall
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England
AND THE
Monuments Erected in Her Memory
BY
JAMES GALLOWAY,
A.M., M.D.
Senior Physician, and a Vice-President, Charing Cross Hospital.
LONDON
JOHN BALE, SONS & DANIELSSON, Ltd.
OXFORD HOUSE
83-91, GREAT TITCHFIELD STREET, OXFORD STREET, W.
PREFACE.

These Studies in the history of Old London were written at the request of Students of Charing Cross Hospital, and were first published in their Gazette. The rough outlines, marks of which may be easily discerned, were formed by the notes for Lectures delivered to the Students and Nursing Staff of the Hospital on various occasions. It is hoped that in the present form these Studies may continue to be of interest to friends of Charing Cross Hospital, and perhaps also to the large and increasing number of Students of the history of London.

London,

Easter, 1914.

THE HOSPITAL AND CHAPEL OF
SAINT MARY RONCEVALL