Otterton Priory

The tower of the parish church is the major remaining structure of the monastery.

It was a cell of the monastery of Mont St. Michael in Normandy and in 1332 King John is recorded as creating establishing the priory for four monks.

However, it is possible that he simply increased the revenues and improved the buildings of an existing monastery.

[1] Richard Duke obtained the priory lands at the Dissolution of the Monasteries and some time after 1539 constructed the manor house from part of the monastic buildings by.

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