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Grey Friars' Church

Memorials : 8
Location : Preston, City of Preston, England
Coordinate : 53.7601480, -2.7084600
Description : Founded around the early 1200s by Franciscan monks, known as Grey Friars after the colour of their robes and dedicated to St Clare. The first documented evidence of the friary existing was in 1260 when King Henry III allowed the friars to cut timber in the royal Forest of Fulwood. The Franciscan friary was one of the only three friaries to exist in Lancashire, the others were an Augustinian friary in Warrington and an Dominican friary in Lancaster. In 1539 Henry VIII ordered the friary dissolved and the buildings to be sold off and partly demolished. The site of the... Read More

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    Grey Friars' Church is located at Marsh Lane Preston, City of Preston ,Lancashire , PR1 2YFEngland.

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    Latitude: 53.7601480
    Longitude: -2.7084600

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