Couvent des Sœurs grises d'Amiens, Religious convent in Amiens, France.

The Couvent des Sœurs grises d'Amiens survives only as the walls of its cloister, a quadrilateral of pale greyish-beige stone blocks now set within a public garden, the square du cloître des sœurs grises. The upper tier is pierced by three arches, a wide central one flanked by two narrower ones with slightly irregular edges, above a base of rougher, darker stone. Behind them a lower colonnade with small arches recedes.

Grey Sisters of the Franciscan third order, founded by Elizabeth of Hungary, settled in Amiens in 1486 after leaving their convent at Mainville in Artois, taking refuge in the Saint-Nicolas-en-Coquerel hospital. They cared for the sick, aided the poor and lodged travellers. The church was rebuilt in the 16th century and the buildings in the early 18th. Declared national property during the Revolution, the convent was sold in 1793; the remaining buildings were destroyed in the German bombardments of 19 May 1940, and the cloister walls and crypt were inscribed as monuments historiques on 18 December 1940.

The sisters belonged to the Franciscan third order founded by Elizabeth of Hungary and came from Mainville in Artois in 1486, taking refuge at the Saint-Nicolas-en-Coquerel hospital. They cared for the sick, helped the poor and lodged travellers. The cloister walls now stand inside the public Square du Cloître des Sœurs Grises.

The cloister walls stand inside the public Square du Cloître des Sœurs Grises in the Saint-Germain district, a short walk from Amiens cathedral. The garden is freely entered; the crypt is not open as a matter of course, so ask at the Amiens tourist office before planning to see it.

The 1940 listing covers only the cloister walls and the crypt, not the whole convent: the church and other buildings had already been sold off in 1793 and the rest was destroyed in the German bombing of 19 May 1940. The brothers Duthoit had drawn the convent in 1834, before that loss.