Site Represents a site. Prim Media 426 Denomination Catholic Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building End Date 1580? Parish St Andrews and St Leonards Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource St Nicholas Hospital Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bess Rhodes Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 200 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.33319159525061,-2.780689983076441; Description An account of the resource The hospital of St Nicholas was founded as a refuge for lepers in the twelfth century. Because of fears of infection it stood a little to the south of the main built-up area of St Andrews, near the East Sands. As the prevalence of leprosy declined in the late Middle Ages the hospital became a more general shelter for the poor and sick. During the early sixteenth century the hospital was owned by St Andrews’ Dominican friars (who were based on South Street). Shortly after the Reformation St Nicholas Hospital (and its lands and revenues) were transferred to the St Andrews burgh council, with the intention they would continue to fund the care of the poor and sick. Poor residents of St Andrews still seem to have been living at St Nicholas in the late sixteenth century. At a subsequent (unknown) date St Nicholas stopped serving as a hospital and became an ordinary farm. The foundations of the medieval hospital were discovered by archaeologists in the late twentieth century during the building of the East Sands Leisure Centre. Excavations at this time also uncovered prehistoric human remains, the oldest of which were carbon dated to between 1530-1310 B.C., implying that there was an early cemetery in this area. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 05/10/2021 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (1) Derek Hall, ‘“Unto yone hospital at tounis end”: The Scottish Medieval Hospital’, Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, 12, (2006), p. 89. (2) Derek Hall and Catherine Smith, ‘The Archaeology of Medieval St Andrews’, in Michael Brown and Katie Stevenson, eds, Medieval St Andrews: Church, Cult, City (Woodbridge, 2017), p. 202. (3) Bess Rhodes, Riches and Reform: Ecclesiastical Wealth in St Andrews, c.1520-1580 (Leiden, 2019), pp. 123, 130. (4) Simon Taylor and Gilbert Márkus, The Place-Names of Fife (5 vols, Donington, 2006-2012), vol. 3, pp. 528-529. Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1170? Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 10/08/2023 09:59:43 am Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. St Nicholas Hospital Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT