The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . found it cheaper to occupy the old monastic buildingsthen to erect a new House of Correction. This one was replaced in 1789 by the erection of the one in Church Street, andthe buildings on the site of the Grey Friars weremade into private dwellings. At the beginning of thepresent century the shell of the old chapel, dividedinto cottages, was still in existence, and three of theoriginal lancet windows at the east end remained, butthe whole was described as now degustingly original buildings consisted o
The history of the parish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster . found it cheaper to occupy the old monastic buildingsthen to erect a new House of Correction. This one was replaced in 1789 by the erection of the one in Church Street, andthe buildings on the site of the Grey Friars weremade into private dwellings. At the beginning of thepresent century the shell of the old chapel, dividedinto cottages, was still in existence, and three of theoriginal lancet windows at the east end remained, butthe whole was described as now degustingly original buildings consisted of a small quadranglewith cloisters and a chapel. Not far away was a LadyWell, from which the water was conveyed to the Holy Water Stoup from _ _ ? Grey Friars. Friary by a leaden conduit, which was discovered with sundry fragments of human bones during the excavations made for the canal According to P. Whittle over the gateway the arms of Original Minute Book in the Manchester Free Library,the family were carved quartered with those of the 3 Whitakers Ecclesiastical History. 203 in 1861. The water stoup, a sketch of which appears on the previous page,is in the possession of Mr. T. Harrison Myres, , of Preston, as arealso the carved stones shown on page 201. The stoup is ten inches high.
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