Monastery information | |
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Order | Franciscans |
Established | 1241 |
Disestablished | 1541 |
Architecture | |
Status | Inactive |
Site | |
Public access | Yes |
Official name | The French Church (Waterford) |
Reference no. | 205 |
The French Church, also known as Greyfriars Abbey, is a former Franciscan friary which was built in 1241 on what is now Greyfriars and Baileys New Street, Waterford in Ireland. At the entrance to the ancient church stands a monument to Luke Wadding, a seventeenth-century Waterford-born priest. This friary was one of the first to be built in Ireland, being founded by the Anglo-Norman Knight Sir Hugh Purcell.[1]