GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne was a friary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, which was founded in Pilgrim Street in 1237, was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and then rebuilt as a private residence, as New Place and Anderson Place, before being demolished to become Grey Street.
Greyfriars
The friary was founded, in 1237, in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was sold after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.New Place
The merchant Robert Anderson purchased the 13 acres of land and on the site of the former Greyfriars building built a private residence which was described as a “princely house built out of the ruins of the friars”. In 1646, King Charles I was kept prisoner there by the Scots.Robert Anderson bequeathed his estate to his kinsman, the Newcastle MP Sir Francis Anderson. In 1675, Sir Francis sold "New Place" to Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle, on whose death it passed to Sir William's younger son, Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who had been made a baronet in his own right, and who added two large wings to the house in 1690. It then passed to Sir William Blackett, 2nd Baronet, and then to the latter's nephew, Sir Walter Calverley-Blackett, 2nd Baronet. Sir Walter's successor, Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, sold the house in 1782 to the wealthy Newcastle builder, George Anderson who converted the residence into three dwellings.