The College of the Vicar’s Choral, Exeter (demolished 1893)
The college was built in 1383-88 to house the Vicars Choral, the junior clergy who sang the cathedral's many daily services. It consisted of two rows of lodgings facing each other across a narrow courtyard, with their eating hall on South Street and a gatehouse at its east end.
Each originally consisted of one ground-floor and one first-floor room, but extra rooms were later contrived in the attics. Only the ruin of the hall survives today.
Each originally consisted of one ground-floor and one first-floor room, but extra rooms were later contrived in the attics. Only the ruin of the hall survives today.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 94/1931/1
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- charcoal with wash on paper
- Common Name
- The College of the Vicar’s Choral, Exeter (demolished 1893)
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- KMC 1889; Vicars College and College Hall
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- England
- Production Date
- 1889
- Production Person Initials
- Kate M
- Production Person Surname
- Clarke
- Production Year Low
- 1889
- Production Year High
- 1889
