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Rougemont Castle, also known as Exeter Castle, is the historic castle of the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built into the northern corner of the Roman city walls starting in or shortly after the year 1068, following Exeter's rebellion against William the Conqueror. In 1136 it was besieged for three months by King Stephen.
There was a monastery here before the Norman Conquest which continued to exist until the reign of Henry I.King Henry gave the church of Probus to Exeter Cathedral and the clergy of Probus thereafter were a dean and five canons (the deanery was abolished in 1268 and the canonries in 1549).
Princesshay is a shopping precinct in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built in the early 1950s to replace buildings that had been severely damaged in the World War II Baedeker Blitz . From 2005 the precinct and some surrounding buildings were demolished and rebuilt as a new shopping centre that opened in September 2007.
Mary Carpenter's name on the Reformers’ Monument, Kensal Green Cemetery Mary Carpenter (3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational and social reformer.The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.
John Moore-Stevens [1] was a Church of England priest, most notably Archdeacon of Exeter [2] from 1820 until his death on 30 March 1865. [ 3 ] He was born in 1782 at Great Torrington , educated at Exeter College, Oxford , [ 4 ] and held incumbencies in Langtree and Otterton .
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His enthronement at Exeter was on 22 August 1328. [2] He then differenced his paternal coat of arms by substituting a bishop's mitre for the central eaglet on the bend. [citation needed] The Diocese of Exeter was in some disarray after the murder of Bishop Stapeldon in 1326 and the two succeeding short-lived bishoprics of James Berkeley and ...