E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 19424-h.htm or 19424-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/4/2/19424/19424-h/19424-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/4/2/19424/19424-h.zip) Transcriber's notes: 1) Words and phrases which were italicized in the original have been surrounded by underscores('_') in this version. Words or phrases which were in bold face have been surrounded by pound signs('#'). 2) Obvious printer's errors have been corrected without note. THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF EXETER A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by PERCY ADDLESHAW, B.A. (Oxon.) With XXXVII [Illustration] Illustrations [Illustration: EXETER CATHEDRAL--FROM THE SOUTH-WEST. The Photochrom. Co. Ld. Photo.] London G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1921 First Published, January 1898 Second Edition, Revised, 1899 Third Impression, 1907 Fourth Impression, 1912 New and Revised Edition, 1921. AUTHOR'S PREFACE Among various books consulted the author specially owes his acknowledgments to "The Fabric Rolls"; Leland's "Itinerary"; Holler's "History"; Izacke's "Antiquities of Exeter"; Britton's "History and Antiquities of Exeter"; "Transactions of Exeter Architectural Society"; Oliver's "Lives of the Bishops of Exeter"; Murray's "Handbook of Exeter"; Archdeacon Freeman's "Architectural History of Exeter Cathedral"; Professor Freeman's "Exeter" (Historic Towns Series); Prince's "Worthies of Devon"; Worth's "History of Devonshire"; Fuller's "Worthies of Devon"; Macaulay's "History of England"; and Green's "Short History of the English People." The author would also express his special thanks to the late Canon Hingeston-Randolph, the learned editor of the Episcopal Registers of the Diocese, for information which contributed largely to the improvement of the second edition of this book. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION In reissuing this handbook, which during the lapse of twenty-three years had become out of date in many ways, the editor has introduced considerable alterations in the arrangement of the matter, with a view to facilitating its use as a guide to the various parts of the Cathedral. For suggestions as to this, and for numerous improvements and corrections in detail he is particularly indebted to Miss Beatrix F. Cresswell, whose published works "Exeter Churches," "Notes on the Churches of the Deanery of Ken," and "Edwardian Inventories for the City and County of Exeter" have made her an authority on the ecclesiology of the Diocese. E.B. _June_, 1921. CONTENTS PAGE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MARY AND ST. PETER IN EXETER 1