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The church at Otterton, dedicated to St Michael, belonged to the monastery of Mont Saint-Michel at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086. After passing through ownership by Syon Abbey in the 15th century, the manor with the advowson was bought by Richard Duke (c. 1515–1572) at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [1]
St Michael's church, Otterton. The late 11th tower was part of the priory. Otterton Priory was a priory in Otterton, Devon founded before 1087 and suppressed in 1414. The tower of the parish church is the major remaining structure of the monastery. The manor house probably reuses parts of the monastery's fabric.
The Rolle desire was fulfilled in 1786 when Denys Rolle (1725–1797) purchased for the huge sum of £72,000 the manor of Otterton, with several other manors, from the heirs of his brother-in-law the last Robert Duke (d. 1741) of Otterton, who had married his sister Isabella Charlotte Rolle, which marriage was without issue.
Otterton is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England. The parish lies on the English Channel and is surrounded clockwise from the south by the parishes of East Budleigh, Bicton, Colaton Raleigh, Newton Poppleford and Harpford and Sidmouth. [1] In 2001 its population was 700, compared to 622 a hundred years earlier. [2]
Edge Barton Manor Branscombe: Manor house: 16th century: 22 February 1955: 1104129: Upload Photo: Hole Farmhouse including gate piers adjoining east end Branscombe: Farmhouse: Early to mid 16th century: 22 February 1955
The Otterton Cartulary, which listed ecclesiastical holdings in the medieval period, records 'Eduart de Boluorton' and Ricard de Boluorton' ploughing ferlings for the Prior. In 1415 Bulverton and other land and possessions of the Otterton Manor passed to the Abbey of Sion in Middlesex.