| Austin Friary, Bristol | |
| Location Town: | Bristol |
| Location Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 51.4503°N -2.5841°W |
| Map Type: | Bristol |
| Construction Start Date: | 13th century |
| Date Demolished: | 16th century |
| Style: | monastic |
Austin Friary was an Augustinian friary in Bristol, England. It was established in 1313, when Simon de Montecute gave 100ft2 of land within the Temple Gate of Bristol.[1] Further gifts of land were made by William de Montecute and Thomas of Berkeley during the next thirty years.[2]
The monks constructed a pipe to supply themselves with water from a reservoir on the west bank of the Avon. This reservoir was fed from a spring, Ravenswell, in the cliff rising to Totterdown from the Avon. The pipe remained in use for water supply to the Temple district until the nineteenth century.[3]
The prior and six remaining friars surrendered the friary and the remaining furniture and vestments[4] to commissioner Richard Yngworth in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.[2]
No traces of the buildings survive today. The area has been extensively redeveloped since the eighteenth century and is now occupied by the headquarters of Bristol & West, a commercial bank which is a subsidiary of the Bank of Ireland.