A Community Garden, established June 2012, for use by members of Greyfriars Garden Association drawn from residents of Drygate, Merchant City and Trongate areas. Although the Garden is a private place for the residents to potter and relax, it will from time to time be open to the public.(It's the bees knees)
The garden includes rainwater harvesting, a communal shelter, large storage units, compos
ting facilities and a range of growing spaces. A small lawn and picnic area enables play and informal use. Habitat value was significantly improved through the inclusion of a large area of new meadow planting. It takes it's name from being adjacent to the burial site of the 15th century Friary. The convent of Franciscan (Grey) Friars in Glasgow was founded 1473-6. https://canmore.org.uk/site/44092/glasgow-franciscan-friary
' Lord, Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word and the praising of thy name'. From Glasgow's beginnings in 1119, with the building of a cathedral on the site of St. Kentigern's first church, to become the seat of an archbishopric in 1492, Glasgow flourished as a place of pilgrimage. The charter
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/glasgow-charters/1175-1649/no2/pp3-4
issued by William of Lion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Lion
between 1175-1178, gave Glasgow the status of burgh, with rights to own land, to trade and to hold an annual fair. This led to the expansion of the Cathedral. By the 15th century Glasgow had become a thriving town; the city grew from the Cathedral southwards and from the Saltmarket northwards, expanding east and west. The medieval landscape of High Street, including the Bishop's Castle, Old College, Friaries, Pedagogy and burgage plots, which dominated the High Street, now lie hidden beneath Glasgow's Victorian architecture. The last remaining medieval street, Nicholas Street, can be found at the high end of this new path. The street was named after Pope Nicholas V who founded the University of Glasgow by issuing a Papal Bull in 1451. The garden commemorates Glasgow's important medieval past. In 2003 an archaeological excavation on Shuttle Street discovered the remains of the 15th century Franciscan friary - the original well stones in the garden were found during the dig. The timber medieval fence displays a range of metal shields representing the medieval Coats of Arms associated with the city: the City of Glasgow, the University of Glasgow, Bishop Wishart's seal and the Franciscan Friary. The stencilled cut outs represent the trades of the town up to the 17th Century. Each timber upright marks out a 10 year period from the 13th to the 21st century so as you walk down the hill the posts depict a timeline from 1250 to the present day. The plates you see are arranged on the fence in the chronology of when they were founded.
