spital-house

Updated: May 8, 2025

None of the three ever saw St Edmund's Abbey again, for in one short month the minster with its sister churches was turned to be a spital-house, while the dead lay in heaps, silently waiting to summon to their ghastly company the living that sought to make them a bed. Quaint little Bungay lay snug enough in the embrace of the low vine-crowned hills which half encircled common and town.

Michael Fairless - Gathering of Brother Hilarius