Bamburgh Friary

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Friary Farm

In the civil parish of Bamburgh.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

Dominican Friary founded in 1265 and dissolved in 1539. Remains of the friary are incorporated in later buildings, although the remains are not diagnostic. Evaluation ahead of conversion of farm buildings to domestic use at The Friars in 1992 revealed the extant of the friary complex. The north wall of the farm building block was found to incorporate the north wall of the conventual church of the Friary, and further trial trenches revealed the extent of the cloister to the South of the church, and buildings to the South-East. The church had a short North aisle of 3-bays which was demolished after the dissolution. The entire complex was then converted into a defendable domestic hose, retaining the closter as a courtyard. This in turn was demolished and replaced by the farmhouse in C18. Brooke suggests the friary church may have been defensible.

This site has been described as a;
Bastle
Fortified Ecclesiastical site.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU17453483

Web site links

http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N5253

Books

Brooke, C.J., 2000, Safe Sanctuaries (Edinburgh; John Donald) p79
Knowles, David and Hadcock, R. Neville, 1971, Medieval religious houses in England and Wales (Longman) p215
Bateson, Edward (ed), 1893, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol1 p138-46

Journal Articles

Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p4

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Bamburgh Friary

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU17453483

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