Joanna Astley stone plaque
Connection to This Location
# Joanna Astley Stone Plaque - Location Significance Standing on the ancient ground of West Smithfield, where this plaque now marks the threshold of medical progress, you're standing where Dame Joanna Astley's modest house once sheltered one of England's most influential nurses—a woman whose intima...
Location
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield
Inscription
This stone, which stands on the site of the house of Dame Joanna Astley, nurse of King Henry VI, was laid by The Lady Ludlow, wife of the Right Honourable Lord Ludlow, Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, as the foundation of a building devoted to the elucidation of problems in the nature and treatment of the diseases of those who have sought relief from suffering in this hospital. December 5th 1907. Dove Brothers - Builders Edward B. I'Anson - Architect