What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Here stood the East Gate. The land nearby was occupied by the Master and brethren of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, founded 1216, attacked by the townspeople 1381, dissolved 1538. Recorded plaque organisation: Bridgwater and District Civic Society.
The East Gate marked an entrance to Bridgwater, while nearby stood the Hospital of St John the Baptist, a significant medieval institution founded in 1216 that served as a place of worship and care for the poor until its dissolution during the Reformation in 1538.
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