MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: order of st john

Above the arch of St John's Gate

Medieval gatehouse. The Order of St John owned lots of property around here until Henry VIII grabbed it.

Built in 1504, St John’s Gate was the entrance to the priory of the Order of St John, the English headquarters of the crusading Knights Hospitallers, from 1140 until Henry VIII’s reign. It is now the headquarters of the Venerable Order of St John (a British Royal Order of Chivalry, founded in the nineteenth century) and was the birthplace of its two charities, St John Ambulance and the Eye Hospital in Jerusalem. See where this picture was taken. [?]