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Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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St Peter: looking south from nearby department store window; large c12 Norman towers flanking Gothic body of Decorated period; rebuilding from east to west over 70 years from terms of Bishop Bronescombe, c.1280 to Bishop Grandison, c.1350
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St Peter: west front with image screen; last major part of building programme; west window, c.1340; figures completed c15
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St Peter: flying buttresses over south nave aisle in late Decorated style; Norman (c12) south tower with blank arcading & blind oculi
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St Peter: nave looking east, 319 feet long line of bosses through to chancel; lierne vaults, lozenge shaped piers with multiple shafts
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St Peter: upper section of great east window; first glazed 1304, amended 1391; c.1470 glass similar to Doddiscombsleigh in three lower central panels (St Catherine on right)
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St Peter: reredos in chapel of St Saviour (early c16); scenes of Annunciation, Mass of St Gregory & Nativity; badly damaged during Reformation
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St Peter: tomb of Bishop Bronescombe, 1280; contemporary black basalt effigy but canopy with cusped four-centred arch is later, c.1442
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St Peter: tomb of Bishop Edmund Stafford, d.1419; alabaster effigy with canopy around head
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St Peter: one of two unidentified cross legged knights in surcoats; south choir aisle; possibly Sir Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, 1322
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St Peter: tomb of Bishop Stapeldon, 1326; founder of Exeter College, Oxford; High Treasurer of England to Edward II; cusped & crocketed ogee arch
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St Peter: Bishop Edmund Stafford (1344-1419)
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St Peter: heavily restored tomb in south transept of Hugh Courtenay, second Earl of Devon (d.1377) & wife Margaret de Bohun (d.1391); intertwined Bohun swans at feet of lady
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St Peter: tomb of Bishop Hugh Oldham, 1519; founder of Manchester Grammar School & co-founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; owls are rebus of name
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St Peter: shrouded c16 cadaver in north choir aisle
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St Peter: William Langeton, 1413; canon of Exeter
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St Peter: minstrel’s gallery added c.1360 with angels playing various instruments (trumpet, bagpipes, harp, gittern, etc.)
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St Peter: astronomical clock, c15, donated by Bishop Courtenay in 1484; central sphere represents the earth, lis the sun; c.1508 wall painting of the Resurrection
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St Peter: c15 screen (restored 1978) with painting of the Annunciation
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Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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Font dated 1692, Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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Choir and East window, Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter
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The Bishop's throne was made in the early 14th century using local Devon oak and is 18m (59ft) tall.
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Pulpitum, Cathedral of St Peter, Exeter
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Section of vaulted ceiling, Cathedral of St Peter, Exeter
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St Peter: Peter Carew d.1575
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St Peter: tomb of Gawain Carew d.1585 & nephew Peter d.1580 below
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St Peter: Gawain Carew, 1585
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St Peter: Mary (nee Wotton), second wife of Gawain Carew
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St Peter: Carew heraldry at feet of Gawain Carew, 1585
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St Peter: Peter Carew, killed at Battle of Glenmalure, 1580
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St Peter: John Gilbert & wife Elizabeth (Chudleigh), 1596
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St Peter: Elizabeth (Chudleigh), wife of John Gilbert
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St Peter: monument to Anthony Harvey of Columb John, d.1564
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St Peter: monument to Matthew Godwin, d.1586 aged 17; master of music at Exeter Cathedral; kneeling in profile among instruments
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St Peter: William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter, d.1621, in episcopal dress
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St Peter: Valentine Carey, Bishop of Exeter, d.1626; arched canopy on columns
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St Peter: monument to John Dodderidge of Barnstaple, d.1628
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St Peter: John Dodderidge of Barnstaple, d.1628; scarlet gown of judge in Court of King's Bench
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St Peter: Dorothy (Bampfield of Poltimore) d.1614; wife of John Dodderidge
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St Peter: Dorothy (Bampfield of Poltimore) d.1614, wife of John Dodderidge; flowered brocade
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St Peter: Robert Hall, d.1667; Treasurer of Exeter Cathedral & Archdeacon of Cornwall