Blackfriars is a restored Grade I listed 13th-century former priory in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, located in the city centre, close to the city's Chinatown.
Blackfriars
The cloisters area of Blackfriars
Blackfriars
Holy Jesus Hospital
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The Holy Jesus Hospital is a working office in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in the care of the National Trust. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Blackfriars, Newcastle upon Tyne
…Whitefriars Priory (Carmelite) established in 1262 (now Whitefriars Place); Austinfriars Priory (Augustinian) established in 1290 (now the site of the Holy Jesus Hospital); Greyfriars Friary (Franciscans) established in 1274 (now the site of New Place); and the Trinitarian Priory established in 1360. There was also the…
Front of the Holy Jesus Hospital by David Ord
Richard II, who issued a proclamation banning the dumping of waste near the priory site
Elizabeth I decreed that the Kings Council of the North meet at the Priory site for 20 days of the year
The Tower