Thegreathospital.co.uk Website Review

THE GREAT HOSPITAL NORWICH ONLINE: A WEB-BASED GUIDE TO THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND BUILDINGS OF ONE OF ENGLAND'S OLDEST HOSPITALS. Welcome to the Great Hospital website. It has been designed to guide you through the medieval and later history of this fascinating building, and, with the aid of video models, to show you what it might have looked like during its heyday in the fifte*nth century. In 1249, Bishop Walter de Suffield founded the Great Hospital at Norwich. The hospital, which is situated in a bend of the river Wensum to the north-east of Norwich Cathedral, has since cared for the people of Norwich for over 755 years. In fact, over a thousand hospitals were founded in medieval England, yet very few survived the upheavals of the Reformation The availability of both enables us to recreate, in remarkable detail, an impression of life in one of the city's most fascinating but hitherto neglected institutions, and to discover exactly how the building would have appeared during its heyday in the fifte*nth We think that the Great Hospital is a very special place. It is where the past and present come together. It is also quite exceptional, too, given its almost unparalleled record of care, the range of existing medieval buildings which are still in use, and extensive archives. Yet, even in East Anglia, this remarkable institution remains little-known outside the academic It is designed both to widen awareness of this important building and provide an easy, accessible guide to the hospital's medieval history Pictured above: The Cloisters at the Great Hospital. Photographer: C. Bonfield. It has also been created as an educational resource to be used by specialists and non-specialists alike. So, if you are someone with a general interest in Medieval history, a student, or even an academic historian, there will be something for you on this site. But whoever you are, we hope that by exploring this site you will come to realise why the Great Hospital is considered to be one of Norwich's