Monastery · England · Demolished
Greyfriars, Leicester
Greyfriars, Leicester was a medieval Franciscan friary founded in the mid‑13th century within the town walls and dissolved in 1538. Its church, cloister and monastic ranges occupied a compact urban precinct and the friary is best known as the burial place of King Richard III; the church site and graves were archaeologically identified in 2012–13 and are now commemorated by a visitor centre.
First raised
1201
Its prime
1495
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1495
What Greyfriars, Leicester looked like in its prime.
A stone-built mendicant church with a buttressed, rectangular choir 10.4 m wide and a same-width nave extending west, low-pitched tiled roofs over the aisles, and a compact cloister range to the south forming a square garth. Exterior walls are of coursed medieval masonry with buttresses and pointed window openings with stone mouldings; interiors had stone floors and tiled choir stall areas, oak choir fittings and a raised chancel with the high altar and tomb beside it. At prime the monastic ranges tightly enclosed the small urban courtyard.
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