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Perth, Greyfriars Burial Ground, Franciscan Friary
Friary (Medieval)
Site Name Perth, Greyfriars Burial Ground, Franciscan Friary
Classification Friary (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Canal Street; Greyfriars' Monastery; Greyfriars Monastry
Canmore ID 28331
Site Number NO12SW 17
NGR NO 1196 2332
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28331
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Perth
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO12SW 17 1196 2332
(NO 1196 2332) Site of Greyfriars Monastry (NR) (1460).
OS 1:500 map, Perth, 1863.
The Franciscan Friary was founded by Lord Oliphant in 1460 AD destroyed in 1559, and its site made into a burying ground in 1580. The waste space to be converted into a public cemetery.
D E Easson 1957.
Canal Street - site of Greyfriars Monastry - plaque on Cemetery Wall.
Information from M E C Stewart, 9 January 1961.
NO 120 232 A watching brief was undertaken on refurbishment works for Greyfriars burial ground. Much of the E wall was taken down and rebuilt and some 19th or late 18th-century memorial fragments were found to have been incorporated in the fabric of the wall. In situ human remains were recorded when foundations for a shelter to house important post-medieval gravestones were dug. Many 19th-century memorial stones and slabs were uncovered and recorded when pathways were being scraped for resurfacing.
Sponsor: Perth and Kinross Council.
R Cachart 2000.
Photographic Survey (1987)
Recording of gravestones in Greyfriars Burial Ground, Perth, by Mrs Betty Willsher in 1987.
