This was the first hospital in Bath with regular medical staff. It was founded around 1608 for poor sick people coming to Bath for the waters. On the front is the coat of arms of the great Elizabethan statesman William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Burghley had left money for pious uses, which founder Thomas Bellott spent as his executor. The hospital was rebuilt in the 19th century and is now a nursing home for the elderly, part of St John’s Hospital. Public access to the interior is rarely possible.
