St Michael's Leper Hospital, Warwick

The remains of St Michael's Leper Hospital, a mediaeval hospital, is located in Warwick, England, and is the last remaining leper hospital in England. The hospital was founded by Roger, Earl of Warwick in around 1135. Just two of the hospital buildings are all that remains on the site now - a chapel and the 15th century, two-storey Master's House, both of which are grade II listed buildings. The warden was a priest. In the 15th century the chapel was probably rebuilt after its parish was merged with the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. The half-timbered, two-storey Master's House was also constructed around this time.
In 1978 the then owner of Warwick Castle renovated the chapel and had plans to move the buildings to the castle site but this never happened. The structural problems of the surviving Master's House mean that it's on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register as 'very bad'. Therefore, in 2018 it was announced that £530,000 would be allocated to preserve the older buildings in their current condition as best as possible. The Master's House stands furthest back from the road. It is timber-framed, although some additions have been made with bricks and concrete. The chapel sits at the front of the site and remains in good solid condition, having been rennovated, while the Master's House is just about standing. It is completely covered in a protective sheet and has had remedial structural works done with scaffolding erected around the entire building in the vain hope of preserving the fragile building.
Out of respect for the building, and the fact that it is completely covered up and incredibly dangerous (it looks as though it could fall down at any given moment) I decided not venture beyond the perimeter fencing, so the pictures below are all I managed to obtain. They were taken in September 2020.