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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 ExeterDevon, 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.

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Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon

 

Effigies of Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon, and his wife Margaret de Bohun

 

 

 

 

Richard Hooker, born in Heavitree on the outskirts of Exeter in either 1553 or 1554,
was one of the most important English theologians of the 16th century.