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.

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

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The College of the Vicar’s Choral, Exeter (demolished 1893)