Various monasteries and other religious houses have existed at various times during the Middle Ages in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. The Monastic buildings included: Anglo-Saxon foundations * Exeter Cathedral Priory, possibly founded before circa 690 * The Saxon Monastery, founded by King Æthelred of Wessex in 868 * The Benedictine Monastery, founded in 932 by King Æthelstan and dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Peter * The Nunnery of Saint Augustine, a nunnery of Augustinian Canonesses founded circa 968Norman and later foundations * The Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas, a Benedictine monastery founded in 1087 * St James Priory, a Cluniac priory founded in 1146 * Polsloe Priory, a Benedictine priory for women (a nunnery) founded circa 1159 * Exeter Blackfriars, a Dominican f