St. Katherine's Priory, Exeter
Polsloe Priory, also known as St Katherine's Priory, was a Benedictine priory for women (a nunnery). It
ca.1159 Founded on land to the east of Exeter, on a site that is now part of the city's suburb of Polsloe and at the time it was the only religious house for women in Devon. The first prioress of whom any record survives was Avelina in 1218. Amongst the holdings of the priory was the Church of St Mary, Marston Magna in Somerset.
1539 Dissolved by Henry VIII even though it had paid a fine of £400 for exemption from the First Suppression Act of 1536. At dissolution it had 14 nuns, including the prioress and subprioress.
Most of the buildings have been demolished, but one remains, built of the local red sandstone and believed to date from around 1320.
It is now used by the local community association for occasional events, having passed from private to City Council hands in 1934