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Brothers Minor: Lancashire's Lost Franciscans - Investigations at Preston Friary 1991 and 2007 (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 570
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Brothers Minor: Lancashire's Lost Franciscans - Investigations at Preston Friary 1991 and 2007 (Paperback)
Series: Lancaster Imprints, 28
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Loot Price R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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In 1991 and 2007, development-led excavations close to Preston's
historic centre revealed significant medieval remains. Although
badly damaged, these included the foundations of a substantial
stone building with cobbled footings and corner buttresses. Several
east/west-aligned burials, some with oak coffins, lay inside and
around the structure; their presence, together with finds of
painted window glass and line-impressed floor tiles, indicated an
ecclesiastical origin to the building. Post-excavation analysis,
funded by Historic England, included scientific dating of the human
remains and organic materials, which suggested that burial took
place between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. This matched
the occupation of the Franciscan friary of St Clare, founded in the
locale in c 1260, dissolved in 1539, and subsequently lost to
Preston's industrial development. The intramural burials comprised
men, women, and children, and are likely to represent members of
benefactory families interred within a chapel on the north side of
the friary church. Palaeoenvironmental evidence from a ditch that
skirted the chapel implied that the area was rather damp, and it is
possible that subsidence related to these conditions necessitated
alteration of the building: a wall and buttress were expanded over
an earlier extramural burial. The same area saw the addition of at
least one wall tomb. Traces of other parts of the church and
conventual areas were identified from the investigations in 1991,
and, coupled with comparative analysis, allow tentative
reconstruction of the wider precinct. The friaries of the North
West have seen little detailed study, and this rare discovery of
once-lost remains has greatly enhanced an understanding of the
organisation of mendicant houses and the lives of their communities
in the region.
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