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6 de jul. de 2019 · Although the Blackfriars priory was closed during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538, the name remained. However, the names of some of the City of London’s other monasteries and priories weren’t so durable throughout history. In Medieval London, a number of monastic organisations owned a lot of property in and around the city.
7 de jul. de 2023 · Not even these held back the inevitable and in 1860 the original Blackfriars Bridge was dismantled. The next bridge is the work of Thomas Cubitt. He had the snappy idea of building the new one out of wrought iron so that it wouldn’t crumble after just 90 years on the job (sorry Mylne). This is the bridge you can see and cross today.
1 de may. de 2018 · Almost nothing remains above ground of London’s medieval friaries: only the names of places like Blackfriars Bridge and station, the street – and City pub – called Crutched Friars, and the City street of Austin Friars, now overshadowed by Tower 42 (the former NatWest Tower), testify to their presence.
17 de feb. de 2022 · Blackfriars: Playhouse, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for its playhouses and its godly preachers. As the former site of one of London’s great religious houses, the post-Reformation Blackfriars was a Liberty free from mayoral ...
23 de abr. de 2024 · Cittie of Yorke, Holborn. Dates from 1430. Okay, so the current building is a replica built in 1920, but a pub has been standing here for almost six hundred years, so it’s still one of the oldest pubs in London. The Samuel Smith Brewery owns and operates this place, so you won’t get as much variety here.
Blackfriars es un barrio del municipio londinense de la City de Londres, Inglaterra. Toma su nombre de black (negro) y frères (hermanos, en francés) en referencia a la Orden de Predicadores , quienes trasladaron su priorato de Holborn a una zona entre Ludgate Hill y el Támesis hacia 1276, obteniendo el permiso de Eduardo I de Inglaterra para reedificar la muralla de Londres en la zona.
Photo by Sarah Burns, “Blackfriars (in 2015),” Medieval London, accessed June 21, 2024, https://medievallondon.ace.fordham.edu/items/show/171.
