Welsh Journals

§lrrta0to0ia €mbnmte. FIFTH SERIES.—VOL. V, NO. XVII. JANUARY 1888. HOSPITAL OF THE BLESSED DAVID, St. MARY STREET, SWANSEA. BT J. BUCKLEY WILSON, ESQ., A.E.I.B.A. (Read at Swansea, 26th August 1886») I have much pleasure in showing you the remains of that which once formed the Hospital of the Blessed David. A copy of the charter of the foundation and endowment of the Hospital by Henry de Gower, Bishop of St. David's in 1332, may be seen at the Royal Insti¬ tution, Swansea, and is well worthy of the most care¬ ful perusal. But while you are here I wish specially to point out what constituted part or parts of the Hospi¬ tal, and to convince you that these are undoubtedly their remains. I will quote a paragraph from a paper read at the Royal Institution by the late Colonel Grant Francis, F.S.A., in which he begins by saying "that Mr. Dillwyn mentions a tradition that the Hospital had a frontage in Butler Street, otherwise St. Mary Street; and the words of the foundation-charter posi¬ tively confirm this." He adds, " and I believe I have discovered the very site in the present Cross Keys public house. " Riding one day into the Castle Inn yard from Cross Street, I observed a gable of some old premises, and the outlines of arches, which struck me as similar in 5th see., vol. v. 1