The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is the Anglican seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England
completed by about 1400 having several notable features, including the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in England. Its founding dates from 1050, when the seat of the bishop of Devon and Cornwall was transferred from Crediton because of a fear of sea-raids. A Saxon minster already existing within the town was used by Leofric , but services were often held out of doors, close to the present In 1107 William Warelwast, a nephew of William the Conqueror, was appointed to the see, and this was the catalyst for the building of a new cathedral in the Norman style founded in 1133, during Warelwast's time, later rebuilt in the Decorated Gothic style similar to Salisbury. However, much of the Norman building was kept, including the two massive square towers and part of the walls. It is constructed of local stone, also including Purbeck Marble. Exeter suffered during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but not as much as it would have done had it been a monastic foundation. During the Victorian era, some refurbishment was carried out by George Gilbert Scott. As a boy, the composer Matthew Locke was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons. His name can be found scribed into the stone organ screen. During the Second World War, Exeter was targeted by German air offensives against British cities of cultural and historical importance, known as the "Baedeker Blitz". The cathedral sustained a direct hit by a large high-explosive bomb on the chapel of St James, completely demolishing it. The muniment room above, three bays of the aisle and two flying buttresses were also destroyed in the blast. The medieval wooden screen opposite the chapel was smashed into many pieces by the blast, but it has been reconstructed and restored. Many of the cathedral's most important artifacts, such as the ancient glass (including the great east window), the misericords, the bishop's throne, the Exeter Book, the ancient charters (of Kin
Size: 3291px × 4934px
Location: Exeter, Devon, UK
Photo credit: © Philip Chapman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: aisle, angels, anglican, bishops, bronescombe, building, buttress, carved, cathedral, ceiling, chapel, choir, church, city, decorated, devon, exeter, george, gibbons, gilbert, glass, gothic, leofric, local, locke, longest, loosemore, marble, massive, medieval, misericords, norman, notable, organ, painted, peter, pipe, purbeck, saint, salisbury, scott, screen, screen., square, stone, style, throne, towers, uninterrupted, vaulted, victorian, walls, warelwast, window, wooden
