Leicester Austin Friars

{{Short description|Dissolved priory of Augustinian Friars in Leicester, England (1254-1538)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox monastery

| name = Leicester Austin Priory

| other_names = St Katherine’s Priory

| image = Greyfriars funeral procession, John Nichols.jpg

|caption = An image of a medieval funeral procession in Leicester involving Friars from four different mendicant orders including the Austin Friars, as well as the Greyfriars, the Blackfriars, some Whitefriars (an order not present in Leicester), and a group of lay mourners. The church depicted is the now demolished St Sepulchre outside the southern wall of old Leicester (now Leicester Royal Infirmary).Nichols, John, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, 1795–1815, Vol I part II, plate XVII, fig. 11 (facing p.272), also page 299 where Nichols quotes Rev Francis Peck’s description of the image MSS Vol V ( Harl. MSS 4938)p.11.|https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p15407coll6/id/3465

| order = Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine

| established = 1254

| disestablished = November 10th, 1538

| nodislink =

| mother =

| dedication = St Katherine

| diocese = Lincoln

| churches =

| founder =

| abbot =

| prior =

| people = Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster

| location =

| map_type = Leicestershire

| coordinates = {{coord|52.633362|-1.144428|type:landmark_region:GB-LEC|display=inline,title}}

| oscoor =

| remains = None

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{{OSM Location map

| lat =52.6332

| lon =-1.138

| zoom =14

| width = 300

| height = 300

|caption=Map of central Leicester showing the location of the Austin Friars (marked in green) among the key sites of Leicester Old Town. The Roman and medieval walls are marked by the dotted line. The churches are marked in red, the monasteries in black, secular buildings in blue, and the one surviving Roman ruin in purple.

| mark = Leicester Town Walls map overlay.svg

| mark-coord = {{coord|52.6324 |-1.1380}}

| mark-size = 250,312

| mark-dim = 0.8

| mark-title=none

| mark-coord1 = {{coord| 52.640414 |-1.13625}}

| mark1=Red pog.svg

| mark-size1=11

| label1 = St Margaret's

|label-pos1=bottom

| mark-title1 = St Margaret's Church

| mark-image1 = St Margaret's church, Leicester.jpg

| mark-description1 = St Margaret's Church

| mark-coord2 = {{coord| 52.635333 | -1.140576}}

| mark2=Red pog.svg

| mark-size2=11

| label2 = St Nicholas

|label-pos2=top

| mark-title2 = St Nicholas Church

| mark-image2 =Jewry Wall and St Nicholas.jpg

| mark-description2 = St Nicholas Church

| mark-coord3= {{coord|52.632348 |-1.140229}}

| mark3=Red pog.svg

| mark-size3=11

| label3 = St Mary de Castro

|label-pos3=right

| mark-title3 = St Mary de Castro

| mark-image3 = The Collegiate Parish Church of St. Mary de Castro, Leicester - geograph.org.uk - 5104462.jpg

| mark-description3 = St Mary de Castro

| mark-coord4= {{coord| 52.634635 |-1.136782}}

| mark4=Red pog.svg

| mark-size4=11

| label4 = Cathedral

|label-pos4=top

| mark-title4 = Leicester Cathedral

| mark-image4 = Leicester Cathedral south facade.jpg

| mark-description4 = Leicester Cathedral

| mark-coord5= {{coord| 52.638731 | -1.139107}}

| mark5=Red pog.svg

| mark-size5=11

| label5 = All Saints

|label-pos5 =right

| mark-title5 = All Saints

| mark-image5 = All Saints Church - widok od południowej strony.jpg

| mark-description5 = All Saints Church, Leicester

| mark-coord6 = {{coord| 52.631906 |-1.140778}}

| mark6= Blue pog.svg

| mark-size6=11

| label6 = Castle

|label-pos6=left

| mark-title6= Leicester Castle

| mark-image6 = The Great Hall Leicester Castle.jpg

| mark-description 6 = The Great Hall, now with a Queen Anne frontage, is the main standing remains of Leicester's medieval castle.

| mark-coord7 = {{coord| 52.634007|-1.136431}}

| mark7=Black pog.svg

| mark-size7=11

| label7 = Greyfriars

|label-pos7=right

| mark-title7= Leicester Greyfriars

| mark-image7 =

| mark-description 7 = The Franciscan monastery of medieval Leicester.

| mark-coord8 = {{coord| 52.637159 | -1.142791}}

| mark8=Black pog.svg

| mark-size8=11

| label8 = Blackfriars

|label-pos8=top

| mark-title8= Leicester Blackfriars

| mark-image8=

| mark-description 8 = The Franciscan monastery of medieval Leicester.

| mark-coord9 = {{coord| 52.637159 | -1.142791}}

| mark9=Black pog.svg

| mark-size9=11

| label9 = Blackfriars

|label-pos9=top

| mark-title9= Leicester Blackfriars

| mark-image9=

| mark-description 9 = The Dominican monastery of medieval Leicester.

| mark-coord10 = {{coord| 52.634054 | -1.143242}}

| mark10=Green pog.svg

| mark-size10=17

| label10 = Austin Friars

|label-pos10=bottom

| mark-title10= Leicester Austin Friars

| mark-image10=

| mark-description 10 = The Augustinian mendicant monastery of medieval Leicester.

| mark-coord11 = {{coord| 52.634607 |-1.13747}}

| mark11=Blue pog.svg

| mark-size11=11

| label11 = Guildhall

|label-pos11=left

| mark-title11= Leicester Guildhall

| mark-image11=

| mark-description 11= The only surviving guildhall of medieval Leicester.

| mark-coord12 = {{coord| 52.63175 |-1.137886}}

| mark12=Blue pog.svg

| mark-size12=11

| label12 = Magazine Gateway

|label-pos12=right

| mark-title12 = Magazine Gateway

| mark-image12 = Leicester Magazine Gateway west.jpg

| mark-description12 = A fifteenth century gateway into the 'high status' area of the Newarke and Castle precincts.

| mark-coord13 = {{coord| 52.630593 | -1.140781}}

| mark13=Black pog.svg

| mark-size13=11

| label13 = Newarke Church

|label-pos13=left

| mark-title13 = Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke

| mark-image13 =

| mark-description13= The church of the college of canons who ran the Newarke.

| mark-coord14= {{coord| 52.635229 | -1.141175}}

| mark14=Purple pog.svg

| mark-size14=11

| label14 = Jewry Wall

|label-pos14=left

| mark-title14 = Jewry Wall

| mark-image14 =

| mark-description14= The Roman Jewry Wall, a surviving piece of masonry from the main public thermae complex of Ratae Corieltauvorum.

| mark-coord15= {{coord| 52.634776 | -1.133107}}

| mark15=Blue pog.svg

| mark-size15=11

| label15 = Market

|label-pos15=right

| mark-title15 = Leicester Market

| mark-image15 =

| mark-description15 = Ancient market of the city of Leicester.

| mark-coord16= {{coord| 52.631359 | -1.139176}}

| mark16=Blue pog.svg

| mark-size16=11

| label16 = Newarke Houses

|label-pos16=left

| mark-title16= Newarke Houses Museum

| mark-image16 =

| mark-description16 = Newarke Houses Museum

}}

Leicester Austin Friars or St. Katherine’s Priory, Leicester is a former Priory of Augustinian Hermit Friars in Leicester, England.