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and little remains. There is one building surviving from
Polsloe Priory: the main part of the west range, built of the local red sandstone and believed to date from around 1320. Nothing is extant from St James Priory except a cob wall surrounding the building currently on the site, which may be the
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to Exeter. The new combined see incorporated Exeter's three monastic buildings of the time, all of which were located in Saint Peter's Close. The nunnery of Saint
Augustine, the Saxon monastery and the Benedictine monastery were united to form the Cathedral Church. The monastery was suppressed and
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precinct wall of the priory. Parts of the
Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas survive. The guest wing and a kitchen at its northern end were converted into an Elizabethan town house after dissolution, and this is now maintained as St Nicholas' Priory museum by
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was introduced to the area during the fifth century by Welsh, Irish and Breton missionaries and a church and cemetery are thought to have existed on the site of the present cathedral at this time. The defeat of the
British in 682 by King
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allowed the Saxons to reach Exeter, and in the late seventh century the church appears to have become a monastery under abbot
Wulfhard. The Saxons gave the name
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and Bishop of Crediton in 1046. In 1050 he merged the two
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The Antient History and Description of the City of Exeter
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