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Events from the year 1540 in Ireland.
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The Church of the Friars Preachers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Wigtown, commonly called Blackfriars, was a mendicant friary of the Dominican Order founded in the 13th century at Wigtown, Galloway, Scotland. The Chronica Extracta said that it was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, who died in 1290.
St Ann Blackfriars was a church in the City of London, in what is now Ireland Yard in the ward of Farringdon Within. The church began as a medieval parish chapel, dedicated to St Ann, within the church of the Dominicans. The new parish church was established in the 16th century to serve the inhabitants of the precincts of the former Dominican monastery, following its dissolution under King Henry VIII. It was near the Blackfriars Theatre, a fact which displeased its congregation. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666.
Ilchester Friary was founded between 1221 and 1260 as a Dominican monastery in Ilchester Somerset, England.
Dunstable Friary was a Dominican friary in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. It was located to the west of the Watling Street, between the present-day High Street South and the road that is called Friary Field.
Eremites Friary was a friary in Bristol, England. The Brothers Eremites of St. Augustine kept a small convent near Temple Gate, founded by Sir Simon and Sir William Montacute in 1320. No trace of it remains today.
Sack Friary, Bristol was a friary in Bristol, England. It was established in 1266 and dissolved in 1286.
Carlisle Dominican Friary was a friary in Cumbria, England.
Wotton under Edge Friary was a friary in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England.
Greyfriars, Gloucester, England, was a medieval monastic house founded about 1231.
Whitefriars, also known as White Friers or The College of Carmelites, Gloucester, England, was a Carmelite friary of which nothing now survives.
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Lancaster Friary was a friary in Lancashire, England. The buildings were approximately where Dalton Square is found today. It was active between 1260 and 1539. Nothing remains. Two archaeological trenches were dug in 1981 and 1994; they exposed some tiles and wall footings.
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- ↑ "Gillingham Blackfriars". Heritage Gateway. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
