Exeter Cathedral, properly known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, is an Anglican cathedral, and the seat of the Bishop of Exeter, in the city of Exeter, Devon, in South West England.
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Watercolour painting of A Sermon in Exeter Cathedral by Thomas Rowlandson from the Georgian Era
Inside the cathedral, showing the vaulted ceiling – the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in the world
A misericord is a small wooden structure on the underside of a hinged folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a ledge to support a person leaning against it i
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…of Exeter, Devon, in South West England. The present building was complete by about 1400 and has several notable features, including an early set of misericords, an astronomical clock and the longest uninterrupted medieval stone vaulted ceiling in the world. The site where Exeter Cathedral was constructed was…
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron (a decorative face)
With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user.
St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire: a school-master thrashing a pupil
A simple bracket-like misericord, Bechtolsheim, Germany