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Description: | The Benedictine Priory with its church dedicated to St Nicholas was dedicated in 1087 and had an important place within the life of the city until the dissolution of the smaller monasteries by Henry VIII in 1536. The surviving building is about a quarter of the original Priory. In the later 16th century, it was converted into a grand Elizabethan residence. For most of the 19th century, it was owned by the Wilcocks, a family of bankers and merchants and divided into five premises. Exeter Corporation bought the Priory in 1913 and restored it to show its original monastic architecture. | Subjects: | Archaeology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | The Mint
off Fore Street
Exeter,
EX4 3BL | FAX: | 01392 421 252 | Telephone: | 01392 265 858 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2757 | Go to resource |
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