Greyfriars, Grayfriars or Gray Friars is a term for Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, in particular, the Conventual Franciscans. The term often refers to buildings or districts formerly associated with the order.

Former Friaries

  • Greyfriars, Bedford
  • Greyfriars, Beverley, Yorkshire, England
  • Greyfriars, Bristol
  • Greyfriars, Canterbury, earliest English Franciscan friary
  • Greyfriars, Coventry
  • Greyfriars, Dorchester
  • Greyfriars, Dunwich, dissolved in 1538 some ruins remain as a Scheduled Ancient Monument
  • Greyfriars, Gloucester, the ruins of a monastery, also a street named after the same
  • Greyfriars, Ipswich, founded before 1236, virtually nothing remains
  • Greyfriars, King's Lynn, the tower survives and is a prominent local landmark
  • Greyfriars, Lincoln, former Franciscan friary; only the infirmary now survives
  • Greyfriars, Leicester, original burial place of Richard III of England
  • Greyfriars, London
  • GreyFriars, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, founded 1327, dissolved 1539; rebuilt as private residence, demolished 1832
  • Greyfriars, Nottingham, founded 1224–1230, dissolved in 1539; nothing remains of the friary
  • Greyfriars, Perth
  • Greyfriars, Richmond
  • Greyfriars, Shrewsbury
  • Greyfriars, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
  • Greyfriars, Stamford
  • Greyfriars, Winchelsea
  • Greyfriars, Worcester
  • Greyfriars Monastery, Stockholm

Churches

  • Christ Church Greyfriars, in London
  • Greyfriars Church, Reading
  • Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh

Other

  • Grey Friars F.C., former football club, c.1870-1880
  • Greyfriars, Bristol (office block)
  • Greyfriars Bobby, a renowned Edinburgh dog
  • Greyfriars bus station, former bus station in Northampton
  • Greyfriars Kirkyard, a graveyard in Edinburgh
  • Greyfriars, Oxford, a former Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford
  • Greyfriars, Preston, an electoral ward in Lancashire
  • Greyfriars, Wanborough, a house in Surrey, England
  • Greyfriars, Worcester, a Grade I listed building in Worcester, England

In fiction

  • Greyfriars School, a fictional school which is the setting for Frank Richards' Billy Bunter stories