Heritage of Mercy - Jean Manco explains the development of medieval hospitals and almshouses in Britain. Article first published in Medieval History. - http://www.buildinghistory.org/Articles/Heritage.htm
Maison Dieu, Faversham - A monastic hospital founded by Henry III about A.D. 1230 and now a museum. The official town guide provides a history, images and visitor information. - http://www.faversham.org/pages/standard.aspx?i_PageID=15845
The Maison Dieu, Dover - Dover Museum provides a history of the hospice founded in 1203 by Hubert de Burgh, and used as the town hall from 1834 to 1881. - http://www.dover.gov.uk/museum/history/maisond.asp
Medieval Hospitals of Kent - Ian Coulson introduces the topic, gives a list of early hospitals and almshouses in the county, with foundation dates, and a plan and reconstruction drawing of St John's Hospital, Canterbury, the oldest hospital in England. - http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page16_hospital.html
Medieval Hospitals of Oxfordshire - Margaret Markham gives a history and description: endowments, diagnosis and treatment, internal life, dedications, buildings and locations. Includes foundation dates and brief details of individual hospitals. [PDF]. - http://www.wantage.com/museum/Local_History/Medieval%20Hospitals.pdf
Domus Dei, Portsmouth, UK - Hantsweb gives the history of hospice founded by Peter de Rupibus, the Crusader Bishop of Winchester, in 1212, fire-bombed in 1941. Includes photograph. - http://www.hants.gov.uk/discover/places/domusdei.html
Mediweb: The Royal and Ancient Hospital of St Bartholomew - An illustrated history of the monastic hospital founded by Rahere in 1123 at Smithfield, just outside London's city walls, which evolved into a modern teaching hospital. - http://www.themediweb.net/Lecture/historyofmedicine/introduction.htm
City of Winchester: Hospital of St Cross - An illustrated history of this almshouse founded in the 1130s by Bishop Henry of Blois for 13 poor men, and enlarged in the 15th century by Cardinal Beaufort. - http://www.cityofwinchester.co.uk/history/html/st_cross.html
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Archives and Museum - The famous teaching hospital holds archives going back to its foundation circa 1123. History and visitor information. - http://www.brlcf.org.uk/archivesandmuseums/
Soutra Aisle - Brief mention of the excavation of a 14th-century Augustinian hospital in Scotland, with a photograph of a related standing building. - http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/features/featurefirst8386.html
Eastbridge Hospital, Canterbury - The official site gives an illustrated introduction to the medieval Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr, and Greyfriars Chapel, the only surviving part of a Franciscan friary. Includes visitor information. - http://eastbridgehospital.org.uk
The Gallery of the Hospital of the Innocents - An illustrated description from Your Way to Florence of the gallery set in the early 15th-century orphanage designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. - http://www.arca.net/db/musei/innocent.htm
Innocenti Hospital - Gloria Chiarini describes the Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, founded in 1419 for orphans and abandoned children, and designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. Part of The Florence Art Guide. - http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/ospinn.htm
St John's Hospital, Bruges - A history and photographs of this large medieval hospital, now a museum, from Belgium Travel Network. - http://www.trabel.com/brugge/bruges-hospital.htm
Hotel-Dieu, Beaune, France - A history, description and expandable thumbnail photographs of this surviving medieval hospital, now a museum, by Canadian visitor Sara Genn. From Saraphina Travelogue. - http://www.saraphina.com/moseyfr/091599/091599hoteldieu.htm
The Hospital of San Luca in Lucca - A photograph and guide to the history and archaeology of this Italian medieval hospital, from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. - http://www.sns.it/html/Groups/Archeo/S.Luca/Hosp.html
Ancient Arts of Anesthesia Are Unlocked - Report that excavation of the medieval Soutra Hospital near Edinburgh showed that some 200 herbs and spices were used as medicines, reproduced in Today's Healthy News. - http://www.healthy.net/library/newsletters/update/anethesia.htm