Greyfriars

Greyfriars, Grayfriars or Gray Friars is a term for Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, in particular, the Conventual Franciscans. 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, Dorchester
• Greyfriars, Dunwich, dissolved in 1538 some ruins remain as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
• Greyfriars, Gloucester, the ruins of a monastery, also a street named after the same
• 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, original burial place of Richard III of England
• Greyfriars, London
• GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, founded 1327, dissolved 1539; rebuilt as private residence, demolished 1832
• Greyfriars, Nottingham, founded 1224–1230, dissolved in 1539; nothing remains of the friary
• Greyfriars, Perth
• Greyfriars, Richmond
• Greyfriars, Shrewsbury
• Greyfriars, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
• Greyfriars, Stamford
• Greyfriars, Winchelsea
• Greyfriars, Worcester
• Greyfriars Monastery, Stockholm

Churches

• Christ Church Greyfriars, in London
• Greyfriars Church, Reading
• Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Other

• Grey Friars F.C., former football club, c.1870-1880
• Greyfriars, Bristol (office block)
• Greyfriars Bobby, a renowned Edinburgh dog
• Greyfriars bus station, former bus station in Northampton
• Greyfriars Kirkyard, a graveyard in Edinburgh
• Greyfriars, Oxford, a former Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford
• Greyfriars, Preston, 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, a fictional school which is the setting for Frank Richards' Billy Bunter stories