Little Minories

Minories (/ˈmɪnəriːz/, not /ˈmaɪnəriːz/) is the name of a former civil parish, also known as Minories Holy Trinity, and a street in the City of London, close to the Tower of London.

Minories' name is derived from the former Abbey of the Minoresses of St Mary of the Order of St Clare, founded in 1294. A "minoress" was a nun in the Second Order of the Order of Friars Minor known as Franciscans. A small side-road off Minories is named St. Clare Street. The name can be found in other English towns including Birmingham, Colchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and Stratford-upon-Avon.

In September 2013, a well preserved Roman statue of an eagle, thought to have been part of a funerary monument, was discovered on a building site on the street. The statue is considered to be one of the best examples of Romano-British sculpture in existence.

Minories was in the ancient parish of St Botolph without Aldgate until 1557, when it became extra-parochial.

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