Austin Friary, Bristol
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Austin Friary, Bristol was a Augustinian friary in Bristol
, England
. It was established in 1313, when Simon de Montecute gave 100 ft2 of land within the Temple Gate of Bristol. Further gifts of land were made by William de Montecute and Thomas of Berkeley during the next thirty years.
The monks constructed a pipe to supply themselves with water from a reservoir on the west bank of the Avon. This reservoir was fed from a spring, Ravenswell, in the cliff rising to Totterdown from the Avon. The pipe remained in use for water supply to the Temple district until the nineteenth century.
The prior and six remaining friars surrendered the friary and the remaining furniture and vestments to commissioner Richard Ingworth in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries
.
No traces of the buildings survive today. The area has beene extensively redeveloped since the eighteenth century and is now ioccupied by the headquarters of Bristol & West, a commercial bank which is a subsidiary of the Bank of Ireland
.
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was established in 1313, when Simon de Montecute gave 100 ft2 of land within the Temple Gate of Bristol. Further gifts of land were made by William de Montecute and Thomas of Berkeley during the next thirty years.
The monks constructed a pipe to supply themselves with water from a reservoir on the west bank of the Avon. This reservoir was fed from a spring, Ravenswell, in the cliff rising to Totterdown from the Avon. The pipe remained in use for water supply to the Temple district until the nineteenth century.
The prior and six remaining friars surrendered the friary and the remaining furniture and vestments to commissioner Richard Ingworth in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...
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No traces of the buildings survive today. The area has beene extensively redeveloped since the eighteenth century and is now ioccupied by the headquarters of Bristol & West, a commercial bank which is a subsidiary of the Bank of Ireland
Bank of Ireland
The Bank of Ireland is a commercial bank operation in Ireland, which is one of the 'Big Four' in both parts of the island.Historically the premier banking organisation in Ireland, the Bank occupies a unique position in Irish banking history...
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