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16 unusual facts about Exeter Cathedral


Alastair Logan

Dr Logan is a Christian scholar and the chair EFC at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter.

Alfred William Wilcock

Alfred William Wilcock (1887 – 1953) was an cathedral organist, who served in Derby Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.

Christ II

The Exeter Book has been at the Exeter Cathedral Library since 1072 where it was donated by Bishop Leofric.

James Humphries Hogan

Hogan designed windows for several cathedrals in England including Hereford Cathedral, Rochester Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Carlisle Cathedral and Winchester Cathedral.

John Silly

Silly married Jane Cotton, daughter of William Cotton, precentor of Exeter Cathedral.

Joseph Frobisher

She died in tragic circumstances and was buried with a monument to her memory at Exeter Cathedral.

Joseph Lloyd Brereton

In recognition of his work in Devon, in 1858 Brereton was made prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.

Lionel Frederick Dakers

Lionel Frederick Dakers CBE (1924 – 2003) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Ripon Cathedral and Exeter Cathedral.

Reginald Moore

Reginald Moore (1910–1968) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Exeter Cathedral.

Robert Adkins

His health having given way, he removed to Exeter, at the instance of Thomas Ford, then minister of Exeter Cathedral.

The Exeter Blitz

At home, Colin irritates his mother and older sister Mary, and so decides to go to see his father, who is working at Exeter Cathedral.

Set in the southwestern England city of Exeter, partly at Exeter Cathedral, it features the heavy May 1942 air raid and its effect on the life of one family, the Lockwoods.

Thomas Glazier

It is possible that Robert Lyen, who made windows for Exeter Cathedral, was his apprentice.

Walpole Vidal

Later in his life he was Rural Dean of Hartland in the area his parish stood, and shortly before his death, which followed major breakdown in health, was made Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral.

Widsith

Since the discovery of the Exeter Book in 1076, it has been housed in the Exeter Cathedral in southwest England.

William Jane

Bishop Jonathan Trelawney appointed him, in February 1703, to the chancellorship of Exeter Cathedral, which he exchanged for the precentorship in May 1704.


Anthony Horneck

In 1665 he became tutor to Christopher Monck, Lord Torrington, son of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle The duke gave him the living of Dolton in Devon, and procured for him a prebend at Exeter Cathedral, where he was admitted 13 June 1670.

Devon Sinfonia

Over a number of years the Orchestra and Sinfonia gave many performances in Exeter Cathedral and other venues; these performances including the Mozart Requiem, the Mendelssohn Elijah, the Haydn Nelson Mass, the Vivaldi Gloria, the Fauré Requiem, and the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 performed for the Exeter Festival in 1985.

Dumnonia

There were important monasteries at Bodmin and Glastonbury; and also Exeter where 5th century burials discovered near the cathedral probably represent the cemetery of the foundation attended by Saint Boniface (although whether this was Saxon or Brythonic is somewhat controversial).

Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon

It appears that by the early 1500s the Earls of Devon had stopped using a label azure of three points to difference their arms, as is apparent from surviving heraldry in Tiverton Church and on the Speke Chantry in Exeter Cathedral

John Blackall

John Blackall was the sixth son of the Reverend Theophilus Blackall, a prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, by his wife Elizabeth Ley, and grandson of Bishop Ofspring Blackall, was born in St. Paul's Street, Exeter on 24 December 1771.

Sativola

St Sidwells, formerly a village outside Exeter, bears her name and she appears in stained glass in Exeter Cathedral as well as in the chapel at Oxford's All Souls College and the parish church of Ashton in Devon.