Greyfriars Burial Ground is an historic cemetery in Perth, Scotland. Dating to 1580, it is now Category A listed, with its collection of gravestones considered...
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Hall' of the Greyfriars Friary, while the Commons met in "La Fermerie", (the Greyfriars Infirmary). This was separate from the Greyfriars site, outside...
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39367°N 3.42718°W / 56.39367; -3.42718 The Observant Order of Greyfriars (or Greyfriars) was a friary of the Franciscan Order located in the Scottish...
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Tayside Police. The building stands immediately to the east of Greyfriars Burial Ground. List of listed buildings in Perth, Scotland Historic Environment...
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Greyfriars Kirkyard is the graveyard surrounding Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the southern edge of the Old Town, adjacent...
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in the southeastern corner of the city centre. It adjoins the Greyfriars Burial Ground on its western side. Completed in 1851, it is now a Category B...
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65 in his home, Early Banks, in Perth, Scotland. He has a mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard, Perth. On his tomb, there is the following inscription in block...
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Aldersgate Street to the east, the Christ Church Greyfriars burial ground to the west, housing and the burial ground of St Leonard, Foster Lane, to the south...
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Calton Burial Ground is a cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on Calton Hill to the north-east of the city centre. The burial ground was opened...
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child, his son John. He died in early 1621, and was buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground in Perth, where his monument, including a 1774 tablet added by...
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Greyfriars Friary Church. It was converted into the £4.5 million King Richard III Visitor Centre, telling the story of Richard's life, death, burial and...
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Scone from 1621 to 1627. He is buried against the southern wall of Greyfriars Burial Ground in Perth, close to the southern pedestrian gate. The stone was...
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guides to Perth, Scotland. Her focus areas were Old Perth, the Greyfriars Burial Ground and people of 19th-century Perth. She was the longest-serving member...
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were made to dismantle and rebuild the eastern wall of Perth's Greyfriars Burial Ground, two test pits were dug by the Trust. One of the pits found what...
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in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is surrounded by Greyfriars Kirkyard. Greyfriars traces its origin to the south-west parish of Edinburgh, founded...
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In London, the Greyfriars was a Conventual Franciscan friary that existed from 1225 to 1538 on a site at the North-West of the City of London by Newgate...
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December 1846, aged 63, and is buried in the south-east section of Greyfriars Burial Ground in Perth. Specific Information from gravestone Waterston, Charles...
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provide building materials for this fort. Even grave slabs from the Greyfriars Burial Ground were used. It was given to the town in 1661 not long after Cromwell's...
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These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only...
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Dalmeny Churchyard Duddingston Churchyard Gogar Churchyard Greyfriars Kirkyard adjacent to Greyfriars Kirk Liberton Churchyard Ratho Churchyard Restalrig Churchyard...
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snatching is the illicit removal of corpses from graves, morgues, and other burial sites. Body snatching is distinct from the act of grave robbery as grave...
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Lanark Greyfriars Lesmahagow Priory Return to top of page Dirleton Red Friars Dunbar Priory Fidra Priory Haddington Blackfriars Haddington Greyfriars Luffness...
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Our Lady's Chapel he demolished and from headstones taken from Greyfriars Burial Ground. It was one of five occupation forts built to control Scotland...
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Adam Smith, regarded as the founder of modern economics Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh – Greyfriars Bobby the Skye terrier Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow, Scotland...
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premises at 62 Princes Street, a few yards to the north, adjacent to Greyfriars Burial Ground. The same year, he was awarded a medal at the International Forestry...
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died on 25 February, 1856, aged 58, and was buried in Perth's Greyfriars Burial Ground. His family moved to Liverpool after his death, then returned to...
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William Little (Lord Provost) (category Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard)
then relatively new Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. Greyfriars Kirk was at that time still unbuilt and the ground was for burial only. Little and others...
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completed. Heiton died in Perth in 1894, aged 70. He is buried in Greyfriars Burial Ground, just off the city's Tay Street, where several of his works still...
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museum building, built between 1879 and 1881, which backs up to the Greyfriars Burial Ground. The building was extended in 1895, and a fire in 1987 resulted...
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Perth. He died in Perth on 5 April 1665 and was buried in the Greyfriars Burial Ground. In 1643 he married Catherine Lindsay (d.1669), the daughter of...
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