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Glasgow, High Street, Greyfriars Wynd, Greyfriars Monastery

Monastery (period Unassigned)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glasgow, High Street, Greyfriars Wynd, Greyfriars Monastery as Monastery (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Greyfriars Monastery in Glasgow was a 14th-century Franciscan friary linked to St. Francis of Assisi, and local tradition associates the site with healing rituals and pilgrimages. The monastery was dissolved during the Scottish Reformation and later incorporated into Greyfriars Church, which became a significant Presbyterian site.

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