What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Beneath this ground lie the remains of the Franciscan Friary built here 1245, dissolved 1538. A place of peace, prayer and learning Recorded plaque organisation: Bridgwater and District Civic Society.
Bridgwater Friary was a Franciscan monastery founded in 1245 and dissolved during the Reformation in 1538, serving as an important center for peace, prayer, and learning in medieval Somerset.
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