Friary Sentence Examples

In 1550 the town and friary were burned by O'Carroll.

There are still a few fragments of the Dominican friary founded in 1269.

Of the old castle, called Nenagh Round, dating from the time of King John, there still exists the circular donjon or keep. There are no remains of the hospital founded in 1200 for Austin canons, nor of the Franciscan friary, founded in the reign of Henry III.

The most notable churches are St Gotthard (14th century, remodelled in 1782) St Mary, attached to the Piarist college (1655-1658), the chapel of St Lawrence (13th century) and the church of the Holy Trinity belonging to the Franciscan friary (1655).

The church of Austin Friars, origin- ally belonging to a friary founded in 1253, became a Dutch church under a grant of Edward VI., and still remains so; its style is principally Decorated, but through various vicissitudes little of the original work is left.

The Greyfriars, Minorites or Franciscans, first settled in Cornhill, and in 1224 John Ewin made over to them an estate situated in the ward of Farringdon Within and in the parish of St Nicholas in the Shambles, where their friary was built.

The eastern suburb is called Abbeyside, where the remains of an ancient keep, erected by the M ` Graths, still exist, together with portions of an Augustinian friary, founded by the same family in the 14th century and incorporated with a Roman Catholic chapel.

Of a Franciscan friary there remains the Perpendicular Grey Friars' Steeple, and the doorway remains of a priests' college founded in 1502.

In 1152 the place is mentioned as the seat of a synod convened by the papal legate, Cardinal Paparo; in 1224 it was chosen by Lucas de Netterville, archbishop of Armagh, for the foundation of the Dominican friary of which there are still remains; and in 1228 the two divisions of the town received separate incorporation from Henry III.

The principal buildings are the parish church, two Roman Catholic churches, a Franciscan friary, two convents, an endowed school dating from 1685, and the various county buildings.

In 1269 the place was chosen as the seat of a Franciscan friary by Otho de Grandison, the first English possessor of the district; and it frequently comes into notice in the following centuries.

At a short distance west, a residence occupying part of the site, are remains of a Carmelite friary, founded here in 1240.

There was a friary of Augustine or Hermit Friars here founded apparently about 1280.

Of other buildings may be mentioned the Library, with upwards of 80,000 printed books and many valuable MSS., the stately palace with its gardens and orangery, the former Benedictine nunnery (founded 1625, and now used as a seminary), and the Minorite friary (1238) now used as a furniture warehouse.

There are remains of a Franciscan friary founded in 1296.

There are slight remains of an Early English Carmelite friary dating c. 1300, which escaped the Dissolution.

A part of the castle of Richard de Burgh, the founder of the friary, still survives, and there are traces of the town fortifications.

In the adjoining churchyard are some remains of the Carmelite friary founded by John de Swynemore in 1399.

The Franciscan friars of the Renewal have recently opened a new Friary in Canning Town, East London.

The old boro at Twt Hill had had a Dominican friary, some of whose buildings still survive but on private land.

There he taught church history in a seminary, and founded a Franciscan friary, which soon had over 700 members.

The area was known as Friernhay, after eight Franciscan monks built a friary in the early 13th-century.

The original Greyfriars was a Franciscan friary, now long gone.

Cinque Ports Pottery enjoys the most atmospheric of settings in an Augustinian friary founded in 1379 and commonly known as the Monastery.

In Norwich, a large area was cleared for the foundation of the town's second Dominican friary in the 14th century.

The palace was replaced by a Carmelite friary in the 14th century.

It consisted of two sides of the old friary in an L shape, named Bedford Square.

The original friary was founded in 1338 (no one knows the story of how it came to be known as The Priory ).

Inverkeithing Museum is housed in the upper floor of a wonderful 14th century friary guest house, standing amidst well tended gardens.

The prefix recalls the former lordship of the manor possessed by the friary of St John of Jerusalem in Clerkenwell, London.

Outside the north-east angle a Franciscan friary was founded in 1280 by Gilbert de Clare,which at the Dissolution became the residence of a branch of the Herbert family.