Still hospitable: this photo of Helen Sinclair's Five
Figures of the Almshouse (2003), based on a group of residents
of St Mary's Hospital, Chichester, in the 15th century, is from
The Hospital of St Mary - Chichester: A history from 1229 to
the present (Otter Memorial Paper 34) by Ken Green (University
of Chichester, £12.50; 978-1-907852-22-0; from http://store.chi.ac.uk). This architectural gem
within the city walls, with its intriguing misericords, has been
called by one recent resident "a foretaste of heaven", Dean
Frayling's preface says