Is still standing in part on the left hand entrance to the council house,
and is now used as a stable. The building consisted of a nave and
chancel without aisle; the former is nearly perfect, and there is no
doubt, but that its erection is of great antiquity. The whole length is
50 feet, the breadth 19 feet.
Austin’s Friars.
The convent of the Eremites of St. Augustine, stood at the bottom of
Barker-Street {89}, near the river. A small part only remains, little of
it being to be seen excepting the shell of a large building of red stone,
with two pointed arched door ways. It is now used as a tan-house.
Franciscan Friary.
The house of the Franciscan or Grey Friars, stood under the Wyle Cop, on
the banks of the Severn. A part of this friary still remains, converted
into houses. A large stone coffin lies in the garden of an old timber
house, erected soon after the dissolution.
Dominican Friary.
Scarcely a fragment of this friary now remains. It is supposed to have
occupied nearly the whole of the meadow between the Water-lane-gate and
the English Bridge.
The lady of king Edward IV. twice lay in at this convent, and was
delivered of Richard and George Plantagenet. The former perished in the
tower with his unfortunate elder brother, in the subsequent reign, by the
machinations of his cruel uncle Richard. Prince George died young.