Staircase in the City Schools, Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital
From “Bristol Illustrated” in The Graphic of 14 September 1878, p. 69
Source: Internet Archive web version of a copy of The Graphic in the University of Illinois Library
Click on image to enlarge it
“It was anciently the custom on St. Clement’s Eve for the Mayor and Councilmen “to walk to St. Clement's Chapel within the Bartholomews, there to hear their evensong, and on the morrow their mass, and to offer there.” The house was purchased at the Dissolution for the provision of a free Grammar School, which continued here till 1769, when the scholars were removed to Unity Street, when it became the premises of the school then and since known as St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Under the date 1574 there is a charge for the erection of a scaffold “in front of the hospital in Christmas Street,” for the boys to sing and cheer Queen Bess as she passed” (71).