Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (33)Hospital of St Nicholas
God's House Hospital
des Roches, Peter
There is but one paroche chirch in the town.
Minns:- St. Thomas's Church, the ancient parish church of Portsmouth, built by Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, 1210-1220, and dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket.
There is chapelle in a vacant ground [in the southe weste syde of the town towards the waulle and shore].
There is also in the west south west part of the toun a fair hospitale sumtyme erectid by Petrus de Rupibus Bisshop of Winchester, wheryn were a late xij. poore men, and yet vj. be yn it.
Minns:- The 'chapel' or church of St. Mary Colewert, above referred to, remained standing till the reign of Queen Elizabeth, when it was abandoned and pulled down, whilst its cemetery continued in use for the burial of soldiers. The church was rebuilt in 1838. The 'fair hospitale' is the Hospital of St. Nicholas, or God's House, founded by Peter des Roches, circa 1205. The present garrison chapel was the nave of that of the hospital, and the Royal Parade its cemetery. After the Reformation the hospital buildings were converted into a residence for the Governor of Portsmouth, and since pulled down.
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