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Marsh Barton Priory, otherwise the Priory of St Mary de Marisco or St Mary of the Marsh, was a cell of
Augustinian Canons The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule ( and κανών, ''kanon'', in Greek) and are generally organised into religious orders, differing from both secular canons and other forms of religio ...
in Marsh Barton,
Exeter Exeter ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and the county town of Devon in South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter w ...
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, England. It was founded in the mid-12th century. Although a small house, it owned a fair amount of property in and around Exeter. It was dissolved in 1539. The site seems to have been used mostly as a source of building stone. In the 20th century a "very ordinary and somewhat dilapidated" farmhouse stood there, but was demolished. The site is now part of a trading estate and no traces of the priory remain, but carved stone fragments from it occur around
Plympton Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient Stannary, stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down riv ...
.Exeter Memories: St Mary de Marisco
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Exeter Cathedral Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The presen ...
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Exeter monastery St Nicholas' Priory, Exeter, the remains of part of a Benedictine monastery. Various monasteries and other religious houses have existed at various times during the Middle Ages in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. Monastic buildings The mon ...


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*Alexander Jenkins, 1806: ''The History and Description of the City of Exeter And Its Environs, Ancient and Modern, Civil and Ecclesiastical'' *Rev. George Oliver, D.D., 1861: ''The History of the City Of Exeter'' Monasteries in Devon Buildings and structures in Exeter History of Exeter Augustinian monasteries in England Historic estates in Devon {{UK-Christian-monastery-stub