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After closure the building was used for a period by the Central Library, but from 2008 has been left vacant, apart from occasional use for contemporary art exhibitions and installations. In 2016 the city council considered selling the building.
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The building was let to William Monson, whose son Richard opened a school there in 1568. From 1574 the school became the Corporation Grammar School run by Lincoln City Council on the upper floor until 1900. The
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of the friary, built of dressed stone and brick and dating from c.1230, with mid-19th-century additions. The clay tile roof of the main building is in a poor condition and the
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Report on the Proposed Conversion of the building known as "The Greyfriars" to the purposes of a Museum, with a brief account of the Archaeological History of the Structure
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Building of the Friary was started in 1237 on land donated to the Franciscan order and was completed by the 1280s. The community was expelled in 1538 as part of the
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The man who made the Museum: Arthur Smith and the founding of the Lincoln's City and County Museum. Part Two - the development of the Museum.
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and the first Curator was Arthur Smith who retired in 1934 and was followed by F. T. (Tom) Baker, who was the son of the Lincoln architect
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In 1900 the building ceased to be used as a school. It was restored under the supervision of Lincoln architect
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Selections from the Ancient Monastic Ecclesiastical and Domestic edifices of Lincolnshire
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but it could reopen in 2025 as a venue for weddings, conferences and education, run by
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Journal for Lincolnshire and Archaeology, Vol 20 and re-printed by the Society.
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from 1833 to 1862 and as part of the Grammar School from 1862 to 1899.
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Lincolnshire Past & Present, No. 115, Spring 2019, pp. 13–17.
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was successively used as a spinning school which became known as the
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A project, funded by £3m from organisations including the
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Conservation Plan for the Greyfriars Building, Lincoln.
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Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989),
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roof of the 19th-century extension has been repaired.
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Lincoln Greyfriars

Lincolnshire
53°13′45″N 0°32′13″W / 53.2293°N 0.5370°W / 53.2293; -0.5370
OS grid reference
SK9775971248
William Watkins
Early English architecture
Listed Building
Greyfriars, Lincoln is located in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire
Franciscan
friary
Lincolnshire
infirmary
Welsh slate
Dissolution of the Monasteries
William de Ros of Helmsley
John Comyn I of Badenoch
Lincoln Grammar School
Lincoln Mechanics' Institute

undercroft
Mechanics' Institute
George Boole

St Swithin's Church
William Watkins
City of Lincoln
Fred Baker

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