Ilchester Friary was founded between 1221 and 1260 as a Dominican monastery in Ilchester

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, England. The buildings were restored in the 13th and 14th centuries until the site occupied a site, and by the 15th century it extended beyond the town walls. It is believed to be the birthplace of

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, possibly in 1213 or 1214. It was dissolved in 1538, as part of the dissolution of the monasteries, but the buildings continued to be used, as a silk mill and relief prison, particularly for

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, until it was finally demolished in the early 19th century.

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