Marsh Barton Priory, otherwise the Priory of St Mary de Marisco or St Mary of the Marsh, was a cell of Augustinian Canons in Marsh Barton, Exeter, Devon, 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,[1] 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.[2][3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ field investigator's comment, cited by Historic England Research Records
- ^ Historic England Research Records: Marsh Barton Priory Cell
- ^ Exeter Memories: St Mary de Marisco
Further reading
edit- 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
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