Holy Jesus Hospital

The Holy Jesus Hospital is a museum and tourist attraction in Newcastle upon Tyne, England in the care of the National Trust. The site of the hospital has been in use for 700 years helping the towns people, and this history is explained by the museum currently on the site. There was an Augustinian Friary on the site from the thirteenth century, then a hospital or almshouse for housing retired freemen, then a soup kitchen in the nineteenth century, before the site acquired its current function as a museum. The museum also serves as the basis of the Inner City Project of the National Trust.The Inner City Project takes people of ages 12 25 and over 50 out to the countryside in order to increase appreciation of the city's natural surroundings. The building is of architectural interest because it still retains architectural elements from many previous centuries, including a thirteenth century sacristy wall and 16th century fortifications connected with the King's Council of the North. It is also one of only two intact 17th century brick buildings that survive in the city, the other being Alderman Fenwick's House

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Kazuyuki Takeda, PhD: Professional in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Lecturer at Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan.