Magic Lantern Slide: Hall of the Vicars Choral, Exeter
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows the hall of the Vicar’s Choral in Exeter. The hall was used by the college of junior clergy of the cathedral and the wooden panelling shown in the photograph dates from the early sixteenth century. This slide is important as it records the hall prior to the bombing of Exeter during the Second World War, in which the hall was destroyed by fire in 1942.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/574
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Hall of the Vicars Choral, Exeter
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'HALL OF VICARS CHORAL EXETER' on top edge; handwritten 'Hall of the Vicars Choral. Exeter.' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
