What is recorded here
St Giles' Hospital (site of) is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of City of London. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
St Giles' Hospital was a medieval leper hospital founded in the 12th century, dedicated to St Giles and serving as a place of care and refuge for those affected by leprosy. It is historically significant as an example of the charitable and medical infrastructure of medieval London, reflecting the social and religious responses to disease in the Middle Ages.
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