From the Archives: St David’s Church
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Saint David, whose feast day falls on 1 March, was a 6th century Welsh bishop best known as a patron saint of
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist Saint David, whose feast day falls on 1 March, was a 6th century Welsh bishop best known as a patron saint of
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This pen and ink drawing with watercolour pigments is known at the Cathedral as the ‘Leakey Watercolour’. It shows the
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist If you were to write a chronicle of your life, or perhaps your country, home town, or place of work,
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist We are now past the Winter Solstice, and the days are slowly getting longer – even if some days it
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist With thousands of documents to choose from, sometimes it can be difficult to decide which one to focus on for
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This small set of printed rules for the use of the Cathedral tower was one of the star turns at this week’s
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week, instead of focusing on one document we’re looking at the whole archive! The 10th of each month is ‘Explore Your
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This week we have an Anglo Saxon curiosity from the Archives. There is a small early 11th century document, written in
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist A delightful surprise recently emerged in the Archives. These jester-type characters appear on the loose covers of some court books
By Ellie Jones, Cathedral Archivist This watercolour shows the R.D. Blackmore memorial window, painted by A. F. Erridge of J. Wippell & Co. Ltd, Exeter. J. Wippell & Co. were founded in 1789