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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16606, 18 July 1914, Page 2

St Katharine's Hospital, which is being reorganised with a view to its funds going to benefit tho poor of East End of London, •is the- oldest charitable institution in England, having been founded in 1148.i0n Tower Hill. When it .was transferred to* Regent's Park, in order to make way for St Katharine's ; Docks, as ..,,much as possible was saved. oi theVlold' church attached to the hospital. All the monuments and the stained-glass windows were transferred to the new . structure, together with the qaaintlycarved wooden N pulpit by t one of the. seventeenth century mas- J *-°rs of the hospital, Sir Julius Csesar. f