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    500m 550yds Blackfriars Priory    Blackfriars Leicester, also known as St Clement's Church, Leicester and St Clement's Priory, Leicester, is a former priory...
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  • King’s Lynn, Norfolk Blackfriars, Lancaster, a former Priory in Lancaster Blackfriars, Leicester, a former priory in Leicester Blackfriars, London, site of...
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    Preachers (also called Blackfriars or Dominican Friars) on New Walk, in Leicester, England. The Dominicans first came to Leicester in 1247 establishing...
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  • England. "Derby Blackfriars (313371)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 23 June 2013. Historic England. "Blackfriars, Leicester (867108)"....
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    Greyfriars, Leicester, was a friary of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans, established on the west side of Leicester by 1250, and...
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    Centre Braunstone Blackfriars Belgrave Bede Island Beaumont Leys Aylestone Ashton Green Abbey Rise    Suburbs and districts of Leicester (ancient villages...
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    Blackfriars, also known as London Blackfriars, is a central London railway station and connected London Underground station in the City of London. It...
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    Earl of Leicester upon foundation) Knipton Langton Leicester, All Saints' Church Leicester, St Clement’s (control handed over to the Blackfriars sometime...
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    Abbey is located in Leicestershire, England, 14 miles east of the city of Leicester and 6 miles south west of Oakham in Rutland. The house was built on the...
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    monastic church of Greyfriars, Leicester. In 2014, John Ashdown-Hill, genealogist with Langley's team, told the Leicester Mercury, "The site originally...
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    Richard Finn (category New Blackfriars people)
    presently Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, at Blackfriars, Oxford, and a member of the Theology Faculty and the Classics Faculty...
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    Leicester Square (/ˈlɛstər/ LEST-ər) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which...
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    The Empire, Leicester Square is a cinema currently operated by Cineworld on the north side of Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom. The Empire was...
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    The Odeon Luxe Leicester Square is a prominent cinema building in the West End of London. Built in the Art Deco style and completed in 1937, the building...
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  • Leicester Austin Friars or St. Katherine’s Priory, Leicester is a former Priory of Augustinian Hermit Friars in Leicester, England. Leicester Austin Priory...
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    above the Thringstone Fault, as shown by a geological map produced by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1965. The site is also located close...
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    Leicestershire. The priory was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1139, as a hermitage for eremites of the Order of St Augustine. Before...
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    Penitence Leicester Friars of the Sack Cistercian Garendon Abbey Mount St Bernard Abbey Cluniac Aldermanshaw Priory Dominican Blackfriars, Leicester Holy Cross...
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  • division of the city of Leicester, England, consisting of the Leicester suburbs of the City Centre, Clarendon Park, Blackfriars and Southfields. Castle...
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    had not found. The Blackfriars Press Limited was formed as a subsidiary in Manchester in 1914 to undertake work. It moved to Leicester in 1922. Annie Maxton...
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    whilst drafting their anti-slavery bill. Babington later served as MP for Leicester and High Sheriff of Leicestershire and was buried in the chapel at Rothley...
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    Newfoundpool to the west of Leicester. The station was comprised within a south-west facing rectangle, bordered on the one side by Blackfriars Street and Jarvis...
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  • Leicester Friars of the Sack is a former Friary of The Friars of the Order of the Penitence of Jesus Christ (more commonly known as the "Brothers of Penitence"...
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  • United Kingdom. Garendon was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1133, and was probably a daughter house of Waverley Abbey in Surrey...
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    purpose-built Rotunda building, at what would later be No. 3 Blackfriars Road. Leicester House itself was demolished in 1791. A catalogue and guide was...
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  • Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans or Blackfriars) established St Clement's Priory (Leicester Blackfriars) in the north west corner of the old town...
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    a conference and retreat centre by the Church of England dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough. Launde Priory was founded c.1119 by Richard Basset and...
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    of Leicester, elected 1236-7, occurs 1265. Juliane of Winchester, appointed 1269. Alice of Tatyrsal, occurs 1275, died 1276. Margaret of Leicester, elected...
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    parish is in the Deanery of North West Leicestershire, the Diocese of Leicester and the Province of Canterbury. It is part of the Ashby and Breedon Team...
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  • a series of maps. 4 vols. [in 2]." (1836) Curtis, John (1831) A Topographical History of the County of Leicester. Ashby-de-la-Zouch: W. Hextall; p. 1...
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