Other Exeter Churches: City Centre
Exeter Cathedral  St Mary Arches St Olaf's St Pancras St Petroc's St Stephen's    
 St Martin - Cathedral Close
Tucked away in a corner of the Cathedral Close; Open during normal hours
Park as for Cathedral
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Above : Eliza Mary Mortimer (1826 aged 17) On the panel below are added her parent: Samuel (1856 aged 84) & Eliza W (1862 age 80). Their tomb is in the parish of St David. By Baily of London

Left & Above (detail): Edward (1703) and Hannah Seaward. He was Mayor of Exeter The monument was moved from Exeter St Paul's.
Nave & Chancel
Winifred Butler (1673) Philip Hooper (1715) by Weston Judith Wakeman (1643)

John Codrington (1801), his wife Mary (1795). Their children Samuel & Sarah ...'who died in the bloom of youth...' Their daughter Maria Parr (1803)...'the only remaining child and sister had with deep regret directed this monument to be raised...but before its completion was herself consigned to the same tomb at the early age of 33...'

Jurgen Hachmeester (1762)


Thomas & Elizabeth Spier, their daughters Judith Wakeman & Elizabeth Butler. Edward Butler (son of Elizabeth) & Winifred, his wife. (no date)


 William Holwell (1707) by: John Weston (Dr Clive Easter)

Isabella Holwell Holwell (1844) Widow of Revd. Edward Offspring Holwell, Rector of Plymtree

Other Monuments
Richard Thorne (1787), his father Baranabas (1785), his mother Sarah (1782) and his son John Eversfield Thorn (1787 age 7 m) ...'are deposited in a vault in this church'. White tablet with pediment on black backing.
Edwin Williams (1852) surgeon. White tablet
Anne Holwell (1818) Daughter of William & Isabella Holwell. William Gater (1851) & Isabella Anne, his wife, also daughter of the same. And the latter's children children: William Gater (1801, aged 5) & Edward Holwell Gater (1817 aged 19) White tablet
Rev Edward Bartlett (1857) White tablet on black backing

St Mary Arches - Mary Arches Street  
Park as for Cathedral. The church is normally locked but is open to the public at intervals. The telephone number of the cleric in charge is given on the door and this person may be contacted to arrange for the church to be open by appointment: otherwise write to the cleric in charge.
 Robert Walker (1602) Latin inscription  Thomas (1628) & Mariery (1622) Walker 'Three times maior of the citty' English  John Davy (1611) English inscription; original colour  NIcholas Broking (1666)

'In the middle Iſle of this church near the Deſk lie interred the Remains of Reverend Robert Wight AM late Prebendary of Exeter and forty ſeven years Rector of St Mary Arches 1778. By his side are depoſited the Remains of Margaret his wife 1780
Maria (1659) &Christopher (1670) Lethbridge Original colour and painted marbling Maria Walker (1682) Robert Walker 


Richard Crossing Thomas Andrew (1518) Twice mayor of the City
Other Monuments 
Sarah (1803), Mary (1789), Thomas (1791) & Alice (1807) Flond White tablet with draped urn and black obelisk
Thomas Lethbridge (1725) his sister Sarah Lowdham (1726) and her daughter Elizabeth Horne (1703) White tablet
Burnet (1815) & Sarah (1841) Path Chief magistrate of the City. White tablet with urn and black backing.
Rev William Tanner AM Rector of Meshaw 'whose remains are deposited underneath the vestry of this church' His wife Mary (1830)


St Stephens - High Street
Church unlocked during normal hours. At present it is undergoing restoration.
James (1678) & Mary Rodd (1678); their children: Richard (1670 @ 6), Grace (1676 @ 22), James (1670 @ 40) & Margaret Jeffery (1693 @ 26). '... Lye Here Interred...' English with basic Latin inscription. Thomas Bolithoe (1753), his wife Frances and daughter Mary. No dates. Latin inscription Elizabeth Hodges (1695) Latin inscription mostly faded William Routley (1855) English inscription
Other Monuments
Mary Ann Gibbs (1852), her daughter Sophia Mary Ann (1857) & husband Harry Leeke Gibbs MD FRCS (1853) White tablet, black backing
Sally Blundell (1823 aged 7)
'whose remains are interred in a vault in this church' White tablet, black backing.
Daniel Edward Madge (1895)
churchwarden Brass on black backing
George Potter (1662) metioned in Pevsner but I did not find it because of the building work
St Pancras
Guildhall Shopping Precint
A wall tablet records:-
Five mural tablets and two gravestones to the memory of:
Loveday Bellete, Bridgett Bellete, Thomas Cornish, Thomas Brown, Matthew Vicars, Peter Vien..., & Anne Saut...
were removed from the church of All Hallows, Coldsmith Street on its demolishtion 1906 AD and placed in this church of St Pancras. The remains were reinterred in the Polsloe Cemetery.
Church unlocked during normal hours
        
Above left: Loveday Bellete (1711) '... lyes buried near this place...ſhe died...of ye ſmall pox a Distemper ſo remarkably fatall to her family that no leſs than four of her siſters died of it...'
Above right: Bridgett Bellete (1719) '...sister to Loveday Bellete...Dyed of that most fatal Distemper the Small Pox...'
The Other Monuments
Thomas Brown (1817) graveslab set in wall
Thomas Cornish (1759) graveslab set in wall
Revd Mathew Vicars (1853) 'Rector of Godmanstone, Dorset, and for 21 years rector of this parish, the church of which he opened after it had been closed 60 years...' White tablet with pediment on black backing
St Petrock's - High St
Church open during normal hours: entrance from the High Street. Part of the Church (entrance from the Cathedral Close) is used as a centre for the homeless.

Top Far Left: Johnathan (1717) & Elizabeth (1698) Ivie Brought from St Kerian, demolished in 1873 The Last Judgement show below was originally part of this monument. By John Weston (Clive Easter)
Top Centre Left:
Theodore (1782) & Elizabeth (1817) Sheere. Latin inscription.
Top Centre Right:
William Hooper (1682/5) merchant & his wife Mary Hooper (1685) She died giving birth to her 10th child. Latin inscription.
Top Far Right:
Francis (1675) & Alexander (1680) Worth, sons of Henry Worth of Worth. Also Anne (1686), wife of the above Francis. Latin inscription.
Bottom Right:
John (1680) and Faith Mayne (1679) Latin inscription.
Bottom Left Lower:
Edward Charles Harrington MA (1881) Chancellor and Canon of the Cathedral and sometime assistant curate of this parish.
There are several other tiled wall monuments: Ada Pollard (1884), William Thomas Blacking (1925) 'Warden and feofee of this parish', John (1870) & Hannah (1857) Norton, Thomas Marker (1862)
Other Monuments
Ann Walkey (1813) & her brother Benajmin Walkey (1843) Mural Tablet
William Henry Pinder (1927)
'a feoffe of this parish.' Mural Brass
St Olaf - High Street
Above: John Acland (16__) Added later: his daughter, Margery Duck (1693)
Left: Samuel Angier (1805) & Mary 'who ſurvived him by only fifteen days'
Church open during normal hours
Other Monuments
James Golsworth (1851) Architectural tablet. Behind organ
'Underneath lie interred the remains of Elizabeth Tarrant (1754) wife of Revd Henry Tarrant, Vicar of Kingsteiton (1731) '...and was buried in the yard near the east end of that church...' Also their daughter Judith Tarrant (1793) , their son Revd Robert Tarrant (1798) Minister of St Petrock's and Prebendary, their youngest son Henry Tarrant, and Elizabeth's sister Judith Brown (1706)
 

 

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