Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666224

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ26SW 11.00 21944 62757

NJ26SW 11.01 21943 62746 Convent Buildings

(NJ 2193 6275) Greyfriars Church (NR) (Restored).

(NJ 2194 6273) Greyfriars' Monastery on site of Greyfriars' Monastery (NR)

OS 25" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

The architecture of Greyfriars, a ruin, is plainly that of the 15th century.

L Shaw 1882.

Of the Friary buildings the principal part remaining is the Church which was restored in 1896 during the course of which the conventual buildings grouped round a court to the south, were rebuilt on the old foundations,and incorporating some fragments of the old work, for use by a community of Sisters of Mercy.

R G Cant and I G Lindsay 1954.

The Observantine House of the Franciscan Friars was founded in Elgin in 1479 AD, passed into the possession of the burgh probably circa 1559 and was used as a court of justice from AD 1563.

D E Easson 1957.

The restored Greyfriars' Church is still in use as a place of worship and together with the building published as Greyfriars Monastery forms part of the Convent of Mercy, Greyfriars.

Visited by OS (R D L) 11 December 1962.