Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018058

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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A colony of Blackfriars, or Dominicans, dated from c. 1230. They were established by Alexander II who granted to them the place in which the king's manor house was situated (Cowan, 1976, 116). The friary was partly burned by the English and was wholly sacked and destroyed by the Reformers in 1559. In 1560, stones from the friary were being used for public works (Grant, 1882, ii, 285), and in March, 1566/7 the crown granted to the burgh the Blackfriars lands and possessions (Cowan, 1976, 116).

Information from ‘Historic Edinburgh, Canongate and Leith: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).