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Chapel of the Lock Hospital in Kent Street, Southwark

The chapel of the hospital for lepers in Kent Street, Southwark, called le Lock (Lock Hospital), depicted in the early nineteenth century just before it was demolished.

Leper hospitals were often known as Lock hospitals after the locks, or rags, which covered the lepers' lesions. The Lock Hospital in Kent Street Southwark was dedicated to the Virgin and St Leonard. It dates from medieval times, but no one is quite sure of the date of its foundation.

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