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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 96 SW 34 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Chapel and cemetery of St James (site of), leper hospital founded pre 1181-2, dissolved 1546 (site of) |
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Summary
Chapel and cemetery of St. James (site of), leper hospital founded pre 1181-2, dissolved 1546 (site of).
| Grid Reference: | TQ 9303 6311 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ96SW |
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| Parish: | TONGE, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
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[TQ 93036311] Chapel [NR] (Site of) [NAT]. (1) Puckeshall on Tong. Dedication: St. James. Date 1202. Founder and patron unknown. Leper Hospital. (2) Founded before 1252. Dissolved 1546. For poor, aged and sick men. (3) Date of foundation now known but first mentioned in Pipe Rolls, 28 Hen. II (1181-2). (4) The Leper Hospital of St. James stood on the north side of Bapchild Street with its chapel and cemetery. In 1897 a red brick wall and barn-like building perhaps occupied the site of this hospital. (5) Add. refs. (6)(7) Remains of wall and barn near to siting given by Authority 1. No remains of ecclesiastical building seen. (8) Additional Bibliography (9)
<1> OS 6" 1938-47 (OS Card Reference). SKE48354.
<2> Md Hospitals of Eng 1909 298 (RM Clay) (OS Card Reference). SKE46667.
<3> Md Religious Houses 1953 314 (Knowles and Hadcock) (OS Card Reference). SKE46713.
<4> A Short History of the Bapchild 1926 119-20 22 (HF Lord) (OS Card Reference). SKE32912.
<5> Arch Cant 29 1911 266-7 (Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE34969.
<6> History of Kent Vol. 2 606 (Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE44140.
<7> VCH Kent 2 1926 244 ( R C Fowler) (OS Card Reference). SKE50976.
<8> Notitia Monstica 1787 Kent part XLVII (Tanner-Naismith) (OS Card Reference). SKE47716.
<9> F1 ASP 24-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42261.
<10> Field report for monument TQ 96 SW 34 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4962.
<11> Bannister, NR 1995 'Tong Mill: Historic Landscape Survey (Unpublished Report for Countryside Commiss (OS Card Reference). SKE37460.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1938-47. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Md Hospitals of Eng 1909 298 (RM Clay). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Md Religious Houses 1953 314 (Knowles and Hadcock). |
| <4>XY | OS Card Reference: A Short History of the Bapchild 1926 119-20 22 (HF Lord). [Mapped feature: #36019 hospital, ] |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 29 1911 266-7 (Hussey). |
| <6> | OS Card Reference: History of Kent Vol. 2 606 (Hasted). |
| <7> | OS Card Reference: VCH Kent 2 1926 244 ( R C Fowler). |
| <8> | OS Card Reference: Notitia Monstica 1787 Kent part XLVII (Tanner-Naismith). |
| <9> | OS Card Reference: F1 ASP 24-JUL-59. |
| <10> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 96 SW 34 - July, 1959. |
| <11> | OS Card Reference: Bannister, NR 1995 'Tong Mill: Historic Landscape Survey (Unpublished Report for Countryside Commiss. |
