Wednesday 25th October in the Pearson Building 10.00-12.00 Knights and wizards are a clever sort, become one and take the Medieval Challenge to find the ingredients to make ‘ecto-slime’. Can you ward off dragons and demons with your homemade potion? Booking information 6yrs+, booking essential. £7. Book online or telephone 01392 285983.
Join us on this family friendly tour that shows you the best parts of the Cathedral with many stories to tell. Spot the very cheeky choirboy and the hungry croc. Someone will get the chance to dress as a bishop or a chorister. You will also be given trinkets to lay at Bishop Lacy’s Tomb, to bring good luck and fortune to all on the tour. Booking information 4yrs+, booking essential, £7 per child, £7.50 per adult including Cathedral admission. Book online or telephone 01392 285983
Monday 23rd October 2017, 10.00-12.00 (Pearson Education Centre) This popular workshop is appearing again. Be a cool scientist and launch your flying machines around the Cathedral. Make copters and planes whizz across the nave. Can a plane fly with circular wings? What is the biggest paper plane we can fly? Let’s find out! Booking information £7, suitable for children 6 years and over. Book online or telephone 01392 285983.
Thursday 12th October 2017 at 19.00 Put together a team of 6-8 and compete in the Nave of Exeter Cathedral (under the world's longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling). There'll be some prizes up for grabs on the night, plus bragging rights as the 2017 Great Big Cathedral Quiz Champions! Tickets are just £10 per person and include a delicious hog roast courtesy of Kenniford Farm. There's even a cash bar provided by The Oddfellows! We're sorry that Tony Hawks is unable to be with us as our quizmaster as previously advertised, but we're still looking forward to 'quizzing' on 12th...
The 71st Dean of Exeter Cathedral is to be the Very Reverend Jonathan Greener, currently the Dean of Wakefield Cathedral in the Diocese of Leeds, Downing Street has announced today.
Jonathan will take up his new role at the end of November, on the Sunday before Advent.
He succeeds the Very Rev Jonathan Draper, who resigned at the end of August.
As Dean of Wakefield, Jonathan carried out the most complete makeover of any Cathedral in recent times, raising £7.5 million and completely transforming the interior, which had been untouched since the 1870s.
Traditionally a time for reflection and celebration, what better way to glorify the season than to join the Mediaeval Baebes for a remarkable evening of music, dance and theatre in one of the UK's most magnificent Cathedrals. The much awaited Mediaeval Baebes Christmas Carol Tour is taking place in Exeter Cathedral on Thursday 7th December.
Escorting you through a musical journey inspired by a time where poetry and music conspired to invoke sensory pleasure, the Mediaeval Baebes will be performing Christmas carol classics from their top ten album Of Kings & Angels, the haunting...
The Lord Mayor of Exeter, Lesley Robson, will be in attendance at the Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir’s (BSMVC) Concert on Saturday 5th August at Exeter Cathedral.
The gala Concert, which is being held in support of Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) in celebration of their 25th year of service, is sure to be a sensational event. Tickets are on sale at Exeter Cathedral box office at £15 for front nave and £12 for side and rear nave, with concession discounts at £10 and £8 for students, £6 and £5 for children.
The concert, at 7:30pm on Saturday 5th August, will feature BSMVC,...
Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir are delighted that they will be performing at Exeter Cathedral on 5th August at 7.30pm in support of Devon Air Ambulance, who are celebration 25 years of service.
The concert will feature the Choir directed by Michael Graham, together with their special guests Tim Mirfin, Bass and Iryna Ilnytska - Mezzo Soprano. Both guests have appeared in concerts and opera around the UK and overseas.
In addition David Davies, well known as previous organist at the cathedral will be playing. The choir will sing a mixture of popular and traditional songs...
This accomplished Luton-based choir will sing a broad cross-section of items including Welsh hymn tunes, songs from the shows, light operatic choruses, spirituals, and traditional male voice choir standards.
The choir is based in Luton, home of the famous Vauxhall Motors. It was born in 1943, during the dark World War II years. Since those early days the choir has grown and matured. It has done all things expected of male voice choirs — and more! Competitions, appearances with military bands, TV appearances and travel; all these facets...