Buildings
Buildings
N all probability the name of Westminster Abbey would never have come into existence had it not been necessary to distinguish the Abbey…
Buildings: Savoy
The Temple comprised the chief seat in this country of the Knights Templars after their return from the Holy Land. The Savoy Chapel is a…
Buildings: Street
The original Church of St. Sepulchre, founded during the time of the Crusades, was so denominated in honour of the Holy Sepulchre at…
Buildings: Hospital
The Charterhouse, originally a monastery of the Carthusians, is a corruption of La Chartreuse, the name of the district in France where…
Buildings: Bethlehem
Bedlam is a contraction of Bethlehem Hospital, a lazar-house named after the Hospital of St. Mary at Bethlehem, and converted into a…
Buildings: James
St. James's Palace marks the site of an ancient leper hospital dedicated to St. James the Less, Bishop of Jerusalem. The present edifice…