Greyfriars, Grayfriars or Gray Friars is a term for

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Order of Friars Minor, in particular, the

Conventual Franciscans The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) is a male religious fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church that is a branch of the Franciscans. The friars in OFM CONV are also known as Conventual Franciscans, or Minorites. Dating back to ...

. The term often refers to buildings or districts formerly associated with the order.

Former Friaries

* Greyfriars, Bedford * Greyfriars, Beverley, Yorkshire, England * Greyfriars, Bristol * Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English Franciscan friary *

Greyfriars, Coventry Greyfriars was a medieval Franciscan priory in Coventry, England. The original monastic buildings were lost in the English Reformation, Reformation; the spire standing on the site today was most recently part of a 19th-century church that was de ...

* Greyfriars, Dorchester *

Greyfriars, Dunwich Greyfriars, Dunwich was a Franciscan friary in Dunwich in the English county of Suffolk. The friary was founded before 1277 by Richard FitzJohn and his wife Alice and dissolved in 1538. The original site, which had 20 friars in 1277 when it first ...

, dissolved in 1538 some ruins remain as a Scheduled Ancient Monument *

Greyfriars, Gloucester Greyfriars, Gloucester, England, was a medieval monastic house founded about 1231. In about 1518 a prominent local family, the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle, paid for the church to be rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style.Greyfriars, Ipswich, founded before 1236, virtually nothing remains * Greyfriars, King's Lynn, the tower survives and is a prominent local landmark * Greyfriars, Lincoln, former Franciscan friary; only the infirmary now survives *

Greyfriars, Leicester Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans, established on the west side of Leicester by 1250, and dissolved in 1538. Following dissolution the friary was demolished and the site level ...

, original burial place of Richard III of England *

Greyfriars, London In London, the Greyfriars was a Conventual Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles. It was the second Franciscan religious ...

GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a friary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, which was founded in Pilgrim Street in 1237, was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and then rebuilt as a private residence, as New Place ...

, founded 1327, dissolved 1539; rebuilt as private residence, demolished 1832 *

Greyfriars, Nottingham Greyfriars Nottingham was a Franciscan friary in Nottinghamshire, England. It was founded c. 1224–1230, and dissolved in 1539 as part of King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The site of the friary is now occupied by the Broadmar ...

, founded 1224–1230, dissolved in 1539; nothing remains of the friary * Greyfriars, Perth * Greyfriars, Richmond *

Greyfriars, Shrewsbury Greyfriars, Shrewsbury was a friary in Shropshire, England. Owen de la Pole (c. 1257 – c. 1293), also known as Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, the last Prince of Powys, was buried here, as was his daughter Hawise Gadarn (the Hardy), her hus ...

* Greyfriars, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland * Greyfriars, Stamford *

Greyfriars, Winchelsea Greyfriars is a country estate in Winchelsea, East Sussex, England. It contains a ruined medieval monastery and church and a 19th-century house. History A house for the Order of Friars Minor was established in Winchelsea Old Town by 1242. The fri ...

* Greyfriars, Worcester *

Greyfriars Monastery, Stockholm The Greyfriars Monastery (Swedish: ''Gråmunkeklostret'') on the island of Riddarholmen in Stockholm was a monastery for males of the Franciscan Order, in operation from 1270 until the Swedish Reformation of 1527. History The monastery was fou ...

Churches

Christ Church Greyfriars Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate Street, was a church in Newgate Street, opposite St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Established as a monastic church in the thirteenth century, it became a parish church af ...

, in London * Greyfriars Church, Reading *

Greyfriars Kirk Greyfriars Kirk ( gd, Eaglais nam Manach Liath) is a parish church of the Church of Scotland, located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard. Greyfriars traces its origin to the south-west parish of Edin ...

, Edinburgh

Other

* Grey Friars F.C., former football club, c.1870-1880 * Greyfriars, Bristol (office block) *

Greyfriars Bobby Greyfriars Bobby (4 May 1855 – 14 January 1872) was a Skye Terrier or Dandie Dinmont Terrier who became known in 19th-century Edinburgh for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until he died on 14 January 1872. The story continu ...

, a renowned Edinburgh dog *

Greyfriars bus station Greyfriars bus station was a bus station which formerly served the town of Northampton, England. It was owned and managed by Northampton Borough Council. The bus station was situated in the Northampton Town Centre between Greyfriars (street) an ...

, former bus station in Northampton *

Greyfriars Kirkyard Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the southern edge of the Old Town, adjacent to George Heriot's School. Burials have been taking place since the late 16th century, and a num ...

, a graveyard in Edinburgh *

Greyfriars, Oxford Greyfriars is a Roman Catholic friary and parish located in East Oxford, which until 2008 was also a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford. Situated on the Iffley Road in East Oxford, it was one of the smallest constituent hall ...

, a former Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford *

Greyfriars, Preston Greyfriars is a largely residential suburban area of Preston, Lancashire, England, and an electoral ward. It is nowadays usually considered to be a district of the larger suburb of Fulwood (and formed part of the pre-1974 Fulwood Urban Distric ...

, an electoral ward in Lancashire * Greyfriars, Wanborough, a house in Surrey, England * Greyfriars, Worcester, a Grade I listed building in Worcester, England

In fiction

Greyfriars School Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or l ...

, a fictional school which is the setting for Frank Richard's ''Billy Bunter'' stories {{disambig