St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury

In 1800 it was acquired by an exiled community of Augustinian nuns from Louvain, canonesses regular of the Windesheim Congregation.

They ran a school here until 1861, when they established St. Augustine's Priory at Abbotsley House in Abbotskerswell, Devon, and sold the premises to a community of Bridgettines of Syon Abbey from Lisbon.

[1] They moved on in 1887 (to Chudleigh Abbey, Chudleigh), and the buildings were taken over by the Canons Regular of the Lateran based at Bodmin, who sold it in 1907 to a refugee community of Ursulines from Mortain in Normandy exiled by the French anti-religious laws.

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