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Summary

A fraternity of augustinian monks is said to have once existed near sidmouth and there are still the remains of a building which tradition affirms to have been a chapel of ease at the period when sidmouth belonged to the parish of otterton (lewis).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY18NW/144

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MONASTERY (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

DRHS, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134620.

The chapel of ease presumably refers to sy18nw/60, there is no known documentary evidence of an alien cell, sidmouth was one of otterton priory's possessions (drhs).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134622.

Lewis, s. /topographical dictionary of england/4(1831)88.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134623.

Knowles + hadcock/medieval religious houses of england/(1971).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134624.

Osa=sy18nw60.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134625.

Des=laithwaite, m. /drhs 1986 report no 5 otterton priory.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV134626.

Des=dean milles parochial survey/questionnaire/(1747-62)/summary (m. Dodd,2004)/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV148.

The religious house at sidmouth mentioned by lewis was probably the alien priory of benedictines see sy18nw60, the remains of whose chapel still exist. The house was subordinate to their priory at otterton see sy18nw61 (os).

Knowles, D. + Hadcock, R. N., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV21724.

No augustinian house at sidmouth is mentioned (knowles + hadcock).

LEWIS, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV5386.

A fraternity of augustinian monks is said to have once existed near sidmouth and there are still the remains of a building which tradition affirms to have been a chapel of ease at the period when sidmouth belonged to the parish of otterton (lewis).

DEAN MILLES, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV99074.

Respondent to dean milles questionnaire was told of an ancient priory that belonged to a monastery in normandy but he forgets where exactly, he may be referring to this site (dean milles).

Reichel, O. J., 1903, The Hundred of Budleigh in the Time of "Testa de Nevil" AD 1244, 296 (Article in Serial). SDV40350.

Testa de Nevil: St. Michael of the Mount also holds Sidmue. Githa by leave of the Confessor, gave the Conqueror confirmed. Annexed 30th April 1415 with Otterton Priory, the daughter house of St. Michael, to Syon House in Middlesex by Henry V.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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