{"id":741,"date":"2019-11-04T11:33:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/?p=741"},"modified":"2024-05-03T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T13:24:10","slug":"new-forest-centre-rww-visit-the-hospital-of-st-cross-and-almshouse-of-noble-poverty-winchester-on-the-4th-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"New Forest Centre RWW visit \u2018The Hospital of St Cross\u2019 and \u2018Almshouse of Noble Poverty\u2019, Winchester on the 4th September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This establishment was\nfounded just 65 years after the Norman invasion, and was created by a young\nFrench monk and nobleman, Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, who was the\ngrandson of William the Conqueror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Display in the inner courtyard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It remains a Christian almshouse for the elderly http:\/\/hospitalofstcross.co.uk\/<\/a>. Founded in the 12th<\/sup> century, the Hospital of St Cross still provides accommodation for 25 gentlemen, aged over sixty, known as Brothers, and is amongst the oldest charitable foundations in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The church at St Cross provides a private chapel for the Brothers, and is within the public parish of \u2018St Faiths\u2019 http:\/\/parishofstfaith.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brother John during the guided tour<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We parked within the church\nquadrangle which gave a magnificent backdrop to the 21 car display. Coffee was\ntaken in the \u2018Hundred Man Hall\u2019 tea room, after which we split into two groups\nfor our conducted 1\u00bc hr tours of the grounds and ancient buildings, which were\nprovided by Brother John and Cathy from the Porters Lodge, which were most\ninteresting and entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grounds include a walled\narea with a carp pond with superb borders of flowers, and lawns. The\ntranquillity of the place was astounding as it is very close to the M3 and busy\nfeeder road to Winchester\ncity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lunch was booked at the \u2018Bell\nInn\u2019 which was a 5 min walk, whilst the cars were left safely in the quadrangle\nby the church. Sam at the pub did us proud, and we all had a welcome lunch and\nwondered at what we had seen, as lots of members were unaware that such a place\nexisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The alter in St Cross Church<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After lunch, some went for a\nwalk along the Ichen River, one couple walked into Winchester, others sat in the gardens and\nenjoyed the sunny day by the carp lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 3pm thoughts led to\nafternoon teas from the ladies in the Hundred Man Hall, or sitting at the\noutside tables, which rounded off the day well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our thanks to Peter &\nAlison, who donned their yellow tabards for early morning duties as marshals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This establishment was founded just 65 years after the Norman invasion, and was created by a young French monk and nobleman, Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, who was the grandson of William the Conqueror. It remains a Christian almshouse for the elderly http:\/\/hospitalofstcross.co.uk\/. Founded in the 12th century, the Hospital of St Cross still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nfahc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}