"The Friary", Appleton Gate, Newark, Notts.
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"The Friary", Appleton Gate, Newark, Notts.
Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 1 Feb 2015
The driveway entrance to a couple of residential properties on the site of the former Newark Friary. The houses and the surrounding walls are constructed of light grey stone. In 1507 a group of Grey Friars, a.k.a. "Observant Friars" of the Franciscan Order, began to serve the community from this site. The site included "gardens and/or an orchard" and it is thought that Friary Gardens (a public park on the photographer's left albeit not visible here) may have been part of the Friary. Apparently there is no longer any trace of the friary in the grounds of these residential properties, except insofar as some of the stones may have been used when a house was first built here post-1542 when the site, the churchyard and several associated gardens were "granted to Richard Andrewes (sic) and Nicholas Temple".
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Image Location
Latitude
53.077854
Longitude
-0.805158