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St Giles' Church, Wenlock Road, Shrewsbury (image)
St Giles' was the church of a leper hospital founded c1154-62 at the extreme end of the Abbey Foregate suburb. Leper hospitals were provided well outside most large medieval towns because of the fear of contagion. Inmates were tended by monks from Shrewsbury Abbey.
(Image courtesy of Shropshire Archives)
