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admin sinfulldude · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject: BLACKFRIARS PRIORY ;- Gloucester

BLACKFRIARS PRIORY
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
'A massive Dominican priory complex built in 1239 with a church, and east and south cloister range and a study dormer'is how the Department of the Environment describe this ruin open to the public only in August, 1979. In 1530 the partially destroyed buildings were purchased by a Mr. Bell who turned then into a cloth and cap factory. This resulted in the construction of individual houses being actually incorporated into the structure of the priory and some of these house are still private residences.
Whilst restoration work has been carried out during the last ten years, a previous unknown 'dungeon'or immurement cell was discovered which contained the ancient skeleton of a young child, It is this fact that witnesses seem somehow to associate with the sightings of the figure of a monk in a black habit, a survivor perhaps of the Blackfriars. Although the Department of the Environment cannot obviously substantiate stories of the hunting, certain workers commented on hut doors `mysteriously locking themselves` and one or two of the work force reported seeing the monk near the site of the underground room

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