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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GREY FRIARS' MONASTERY (Site of) | Grey Friars Monastery (site of) Grey Friars Monastery (site of) Grey Friars Monastery (site of) Convent for Franciscans or Gray Friars Convent of the Greyfriars |
William Muir Esq . John Nicholson . William McWhinny . Chalmers Caledonia . . Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] 1845 |
050 | [Situation] At the N. [North] end of Castle Street and near the N.W. [North West] side of the town of Kirkcudbright. The Site of an ancient Convent or monastery. The site is still identified by all the intelligent inhabitants of the town. It appears to have Stood between the ruins of Kirkcudbright Castle & the Old Church or present School of Industry, beneath the last mentioned building is still the vault or Sepulchre which was the burial place of the McClellan of Bombie. - |
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[Page] 111Parish of Kirkcudbright
Form 136
Page - 278 - Grey Friars Monastery
At Kirkcudbright, there was
founded, in the reign of Alexander II
a Convent for Franciscan or Gray Friars
Chalmers Caledonia
Vol [Volume] III P [Page] 310
Spottiswood, 498
The general Assembly which sat in Edinburgh during the summer of 1564 petitioned Queen Mary
to grant the Friars' Church of Kirkcudbright to the magistrates to be used as a parish church
The Queen was pleased to comply with this request and the building then contained for the first
time a Protestant congregation. The Convent itself having suffered from the fury of the populace
was bestowed upon Sir Thomas McLellan of Bombie to afford him a site for a new residence.
This castle was created in 1582: it is now in ruins, but the walls remain almost entire etc. The late
Church of Kirkcudbright built in 1730 Stood upon the spot previously occupied by the Friar's Church.
Below the portions of it called the Old Aisle still remaining is the tomb in which the mortal remains
of the Maclellans were deposited "
See Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] 1845 Also Sinclairs Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] Vol [volume] II P. [Page] 28
Chalmers Caledonia vol [volume] III P. [Page] 310
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