The Warwick Directory
Lord Leycester Hospital
In 1571 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Leycester), founded a home for those wounded in the service of the Queen, and her successors, and this use continues to the present day.
The magnificent black & white Elizabethan style timbered buildings, galleried and richly gabled, were formerly used by the town guild.
The buildings include the Great Hall, where Fulke Greville once entertained James I, and has a superb medieval oak roof, the Guildhall (now a museum), and the Chaplain's Hall, now the Queen's Own Hussars, Regimental Museum.
Many TV and film productions have used this beautiful building as a location including the recent David Dimbleby series How We Built Britain.
There is also an excellent Tea Room.
- Address
- High Street, Warwick
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 1926 491422
- Car Park
- On Site or Westgate