It was probably in the episcopacy of Geoffrey Plantagenet or his immediate predecessor, that the foundation of St. Mary Magdalene was laid, and it has remained under patronage of the Archbishop of York up to the present time.

The exact date of the foundation of the hospital is uncertain but it was in existence by the end of the thirteenth century.

Archbishop William de Wickwane granted permission for Gilbert and his wife to live in the hospital in 1281.

[2] In 1390, Robert Morton extended the foundation by granting Nostell Priory a sum of money which was to be used to fund a chaplain to the Hospital.

[3] It survived the dissolution of the monasteries but through the lack of care of subsequent masters, by 1834 the chapel was derelict.