Its charter replaced an earlier foundation of secular canons at St Stephens, a collegiate church dating back to c.
Although the priory was dissolved in 1539, it was one of three earlier Cornish monastic sites (the others being at Bodmin and St Germans) to appear in King Henry VIII's 1540 proposals to establish a new cathedral for Cornwall.
None of these proposals succeeded,[2] and the buildings at Launceston were gradually robbed of stone and materials and levelled with extra soil until nothing was visible..
In the late 20th century the ruins fell into disrepair, but in recent years they have been consolidated, the grounds tidied up, access improved and interpretation boards set up.
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