Friargate

Friargate is today a short street which connects Castlegate to Clifford Street, but it once formed part of Hertergate, which was one of the infamous Water Lanes. The Friary which was the street is named after was a Franciscan Friary which existed here from at least the twelfth century. The Water Lanes were plagued with diseases and were the centre of the city’s cholera epidemic in the early 1830s.