GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a

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, 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 and Anderson Place, before being demolished to become Grey Street.

Greyfriars

The friary was founded, in 1237, in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

New Place

The merchant Robert Anderson purchased the 13 acres of land and on the site of the former Greyfriars building built a private residence (named "Newe House") which was described as a “princely house built out of the ruins of the friars”. In 1646, King

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was kept prisoner there by the Scots. Robert Anderson bequeathed his estate to his kinsman, the Newcastle MP Sir Francis Anderson (1614–79). In 1675, Sir Francis sold "New Place" to

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(1621-1680), on whose death it passed to Sir William's younger son,

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, who had been made a baronet in his own right, and who added two large wings to the house in 1690. It then passed to

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(1690–1728), and then to the latter's nephew, Sir Walter Calverley-Blackett, 2nd Baronet (1707–77). Sir Walter's successor, Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, sold the house in 1782 to the wealthy Newcastle builder, George Anderson (''c.''1705–98) who converted the residence into three dwellings.

Anderson Place

In 1801, George Anderson's son, Major George Anderson (1760–1831), came to reside there and changed the name of the house to Anderson Place. On his death in 1831, the house passed to the Major's cousin, Thomas Anderson (''c.''1808–72), who sold it to the Newcastle builder

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(1797–1861), for £50,000, in 1834. Thomas Anderson and his family moved to live at

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. Anderson Place was demolished in 1835 as a key part of Grainger's plan to rebuild the city and to allow the construction of new buildings in the newly-built Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.

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