A Lost Monastery Might Be Hiding Beneath an English Bus Station, Archaeologists Say
3rd February 2019
The lost monastery is known as Whitefriars, also called The College of Carmelites, and was founded in 1268 outside the city walls of old Gloucester, where it stood until the 16th century when King Henry VIII had it demolished during his purge of Catholic church property in England. Archaeologists said according to past findings and historic maps, the remains of the Carmelite monastery should be right under the old bus station in Market Parade.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that.
It is not, of course, a monastery, which is used by monks, but rather a friary, because the Carmelites were one of the four great orders of Friars in the middle ages. (Monks stay in one place, friars wander around, if you want to know the difference)