In Conversation with Christopher Southgate
In Conversation with Christopher Southgate Sunday 12 October | 6:30pm (refreshments served from 6pm) | The Chapter House, Exeter Cathedral Join us for a conversation with Christopher Southgate covering poetry of grief, joy, and the spiritual search. As well as a poet, Christopher Southgate has been a research biochemist, a house-husband, a bookseller, and a […]
World Postcard Day
World Postcard Day Wednesday 1 October 2025 | Open during Cathedral opening hours | Exeter Cathedral Celebrate World Postcard Day with us! Enjoy a pop-up exhibition of postcards from the Cathedral Archives. Featuring vintage photographs of the Cathedral and wonderful messages sent to loved ones, postcards are snapshots of life in black and white and […]
Library & Archives In Focus: Trees
Library & Archives In Focus: Trees Thursday 27 November 2025 | 11am-1pm | Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room This free pop-up exhibition is a celebration of trees. From oak timbers in buildings, to larch in woodland, and avenues of limes on Cathedral Green, join us to find out more about how trees have been […]
Library & Archives In Focus: Exeter Cathedral in the 1920s
Library & Archives In Focus: Exeter Cathedral in the 1920s Thursday 9 October 2025 | 11am-1pm | Cathedral Library & Archives Reading Room The 1920s was a period of commemoration and reflection on the First World War, but also of innovation and continuation of daily life. From weddings, war memorials and windows, to controversies about […]
Library & Archives In Focus: All Loves Excelling
Library & Archives In Focus: All Loves Excelling Thursday 12 February 2026 | 1pm – 3pm (drop-in session) | Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives This Valentine’s Day, let words steal your heart! Visit the Library and Archives to discover how writers and poets across the centuries have expressed the mystery of love divine. This is […]
Library & Archives In Focus: Stories and Storytellers
Library & Archives In Focus: Stories and Storytellers Thursday 15 January 2026 | 1pm – 3pm (drop-in session) | Exeter Cathedral Library and Archives Stories become part of our collective imagination – memories passed down from generation to generation that shape our understanding of the past and the present. Discover the timeless tradition of storytelling […]
Library & Archives In Focus: Between the Covers
Library & Archives In Focus: Between the Covers Thursday 4 December | Drop in 1pm – 3pm | Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives People leave the strangest things inside books: we have found everything from pressed ferns, drawings and poems to newspaper cuttings, letters and photographs – and even a pair of scissors and a […]
Art of the Book: The Anatomy of Books
Art of the Book: The Anatomy of Books Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 2pm – 3:30pm | Cathedral Library, West Wing of the Bishop’s Palace In this practical session, you will explore remarkable early printed books in the Cathedral Library to discover clues to how books were printed, sewn and bound in the hand-press period. Places […]
2025 Annual Library Lecture: The secrets and silences of Exon Domesday
2025 Annual Library Lecture: The secrets and silences of Exon Domesday Thursday 30 October 2025 | 7:30pm (doors open at 7pm) | The Chapter House Exon Domesday is the oldest of the three original manuscripts surviving from William the Conqueror’s Domesday Survey of 1086. It was long recognised as connected with Domesday Book, but its […]
Heritage Open Days: Introduction to the Cathedral’s Architectural Archives
Heritage Open Days: Introduction to the Cathedral’s Architectural Archives Wednesday 17 September | 2pm-3pm Join us in the Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives for an introductory look at the architectural records of the Cathedral. Explore records from the Medieval to Modern era. To book your place, please email our Archives team or call 01392 421 […]