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Blackfriars Priory

Situated in the heart of Gloucester City Centre, this once magnificent priory has many secrets to tell. Founded in 1239 on a site that had once been part of a Norman castle. The Black Friars were of the Dominican order founded in 1217 by St Dominic to fight the twin evils of 'heresy and doubt'. 

The friars acted as teachers and evangelists, and they would either travel around the countryside or live together in urban friaries. The monks that lived at Blackfriars had to take on traditional monastic vows of poverty, chastity and obedience; they attended church nine times a day unless excused. 

King Henry III then became a major benefactor and patron of the friary and made the decision to grant timber for the roofs from the nearby Forest of Dean and royal forests in Shropshire and Dorset.

The friary continued throughout the next two centuries, the Dominicans acted as confessors to many significant people, they would in turn give generous gifts on the friary in which many of them would be lay to rest. 

A cemetery was discovered in 1991 and was found to also have women and children buried there have, indicating that Blackfriars may have been operating as a hospital or hospice for the families of benefactors.

In the early sixteenth century the house was in decline, it had once housed between 30 & 40 friars reduced to a prior & 6 brethren living in poverty at the time of the dissolution. It was later bought by Sir Thomas Bell, who was mayor of Gloucester and also a wealthy Gloucester capper and clothier. He purchased the property for £240 & remodelled the church into a private dwelling house with other buildings being converted into a cloth manufactory providing employment for over 300 townspeople; making him one of the largest employers of the city.

The mysterious “monk’s skull”, found in the nave with a straight line across the forehead. Join us to see the monks who never left, footsteps heard in the night, dark figures seen out of the corner of your eyes, unexplained noises & doors locking on their own. 

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http://www.gloucesterblackfriars.co.uk/whatson

Gloucester Museum

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Opened on 12 March 1860 as a private venture at the back of a local pub 'The Black Swan', in 3 of its rooms  the council took over in 1896. 

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The building that the museum currently housing the museum is known as The Price Memorial Hall, built for Margaret Price as a memeorial to her husband William Edwin Price in 1893, designed by F.S Waller. 'The Corporationm of The City Of Glouceeter" took ocver the building as the "City Museum & Art Gallery" in 1902  

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Originally only on the ground floor, a wrap round balcony was added Iin 1958.  During WW2 it was a textile factory, making unifroms for our troops. The builkding has also been 2 colleges, Tech Colleg & an Arts & Textiles College. 

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Built on the first Roman graveyard of Gloucester, then it was agricultural fields, it also has been used by Greryfriars Priory to grow food & orchards to feed the friars & some of the locals. 

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https://www.museumofgloucester.co.uk/whats-on

Still a new venue, we know that 2 boys have been seen, one a roman boy called "George", & the other seen in a grey hood, whcih we think is from Greyfrairs Priory. Sounds can be heard coming from the city wall, knocks in the janitors room. Join us as we discvover more about the hauntings of this building, the city wall, and the area its built on