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Visual Tour

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Blackfriars’ frontage on St Giles
Our iconic front gate.
One site housing several overlapping communities.

Aerial view highlighting our buildings
Our Lady, patron of the Order of Preachers.
Stone commemorating the re-foundation of Blackfriars in 1921

The blazing torch, one of the symbols of the Dominicans.
The Senior Common Room (SCR)
Bas Relief of the Madonna and Child.

Our well-stocked library.
One of a series of windows in the library, commemorating illustrious Dominicans of this Province.
St Catherine of Siena, Dominican, from a painting in the library

The bell tower.
Gargoyle on the bell tower
The front quadrangle, looking towards the front gate.

The church, where we welcome many for daily worship.
The Aula, our main lecture room.
The Dominican motto meaning ‘Truth’, on the Regent’s throne.

The Priory Refectory.
Staircase in the Priory.
The founder of the current Blackfriars priory, Fr Bede Jarrett OP

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