Royal Foundation of St Katharine
The Royal Foundation of St Katharine is a foundation based in London. It goes back to a dedication by Queen Matilda in 1146 and has been under the patronage of the English queens ever since. Today she resides on Butcher Row in London's East End on the site of the former St James's Church. The Royal Foundation continues to be an Anglican community whose members provide pastoral and social work.
Over the centuries, several thousand people have settled in the Precinct of St Katharine on the Foundation's lands, which were just east of the City of London border . For the construction of the St Katharine Docks in 1825, residents and the hospital had to vacate the site. While most residents received no compensation whatsoever, and the foundation was able to construct new buildings in Regent's Park . After the Second World War, the foundation returned to the East End.
literature
- Royal Foundation of St Katharine in: Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert: The London Encyclopedia, Julia Keay, John Keay, 3rd, Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-4050-4924-5 , p. 720
- Frederic Simcox Lea: The royal hospital and collegiate church of Saint Katharine near the Tower in its relation to the east of London. , London 1878
- John Nichols and Son: Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of Saint Katharine, Near the Tower of London , 1824
- Hospitals: St Katharine by the Tower ', A History of the County of London: Volume 1: London within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark (1909), pp. 525-530