NHER 6354 (Monument record) - Site of St Mary Magdalen's Church and leper hospital

Site of church. Castle Street was Great Magdalen Street, Magdalen Street was Little Magdalen Street.
The grid reference is the site given by (S1) who claimed to see masonry remains in standing buildings here around 1870 (information from R.R. Clarke (NCM)). But (S2) marks it further north; this is followed in (S3) but as A. Rogerson (NAU) remarks, this map is diagrammatic and contains errors.
The church, which may be a Late Saxon foundation, lost its parochial status in 1232 and became a leper hospital; it was removed to NHER 5890 before 1272 because townspeople objected to the proximity of the lepers.
Correction to previous information which had confused this with St John's leper hospital, NHER 5755.
E. Rose (NAU), 24 March 1986.

The confusion was due to the existence of a separate leper hospital of St John the Baptist, founded in the 12th century, which (S1) suggests was suppressed and annexed to St Mary's. Its site is debatable; informant [1] suggests it may be the remains usually thought to be St Lawrence's (NHER 5910).
E. Rose (NAU), 7 April 1986.