Description: Plumptre's Hospital is one of the most ancient of Nottingham's charities. The Hospital consists of 13 dwellings. There are 30 out-pensioners of this charity, which was originally endowed in 1392 while Richard II was on the throne, by John de Plumptre, who was sometime Mayor of Nottingham, and who lived in an imposing house on the site now occupied by the Flying Horse Hotel, and whose gardens stretched down to St. Peter's-gate. John de Plumptre dedicated his hospital to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and decreed that it was for the sustenance of 'thirteen poor women broken down of age and depressed of poverty.' It was rebuilt in 1560, two years after Queen Elizabeth commenced her reign, by Huntingdon Plumptre, and it was enlarged in 1753. The present buildings seen today in Plumptre-square date from 1823. This illustration is from Deering's 'History of Nottingham'.