Historical sketches of old Charing. / The hospital and chapel of Saint Mary Roncevall. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, and the monuments erected in her memory.

A focused historical study traces the foundation, functions, and decline of a medieval convent and its attached hospital at Charing, showing how its identity derived from the famed Roncesvalles foundation in the Pyrenees. The narrative describes the community’s combined religious, military, and hospitaller roles, its service to pilgrims and travelers, patterns of patronage and endowment, the royal commemorations and monuments tied to a queen, and the institution’s fortunes through prosperity, plague, and eventual suppression. Maps, illustrations, and documentary excerpts support the account and highlight surviving records and local topography.