Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Exeter, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 142 m
Descend 137 m

Explore Exeter in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Exeter

Sight 1: Exeter Seventh Day Adventist Church

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Exeter Seventh Day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States during the mid-19th century and it was formally established in 1863. Among its co-founders was Ellen G. White, whose extensive writings are still held in high regard by the church.

Wikipedia: Seventh-day Adventist Church (EN)

918 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Devonshire Volunteers Memorial

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Devonshire Volunteers Memorial

The Exeter & South Devon Volunteers was the premier unit of Britain's Volunteer Force. Formed in 1852 it went on to become a battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. Both its active service battalions went to garrison India on the outbreak of the First World War, and then saw action in Mesopotamia and Palestine. In the Second World War, the battalion served in the garrison of Gibraltar. It continued in the postwar Territorial Army until it was merged with other West Country units. Its successors today serve in a reserve battalion of The Rifles.

Wikipedia: Exeter and South Devon Volunteers (EN)

102 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Exeter War Memorial

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Exeter War Memorial, also known as The Northernhay War Memorial is a war memorial in Northernhay Gardens in the city of Exeter, Devon. Designed by John Angel, it was erected by public subscription in 1923 and cost over £6,000.

Wikipedia: Exeter War Memorial (EN)

653 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 4: St Michael and All Angels' Church

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St Michael and All Angels' Churchhttp://www.wyrdlight.com Author: Antony McCallum / CC BY-SA 3.0

St Michael and All Angels Church, on Mount Dinham in Exeter is an Anglican church in Devon, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The church is Anglo-Catholic in tradition. The building in is the early Gothic style and was built to the designs of Major Rohde Hawkins, 1867–68. The reredos is by W. D. Caroe, 1899.

Wikipedia: St Michael and All Angels Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter (EN)

581 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: St Nicholas Priory

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The Benedictine Priory of St Nicholas or just St Nicholas Priory was a Benedictine monastery founded in Exeter, England, in 1087. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries the church and chapter house range were pulled down but the domestic buildings were left intact. Parts of the north and west ranges of the monastery survive with the west range now being a museum owned by Exeter Historic Buildings Trust.

Wikipedia: St Nicholas' Priory, Exeter (EN)

452 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Cricklepit Mill

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Cricklepit Mill is a visitor centre of the Devon Wildlife Trust, located in Exeter, in Devon, England.

Wikipedia: Cricklepit Mill (EN)

169 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: St Mary Steps

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The Church of St Mary Steps is a Grade I Listed church in the city of Exeter, England.

Wikipedia: Church of St Mary Steps, Exeter (EN), Heritage Website

449 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: St Petroc's

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St Petrock's Church is a small church in the centre of Exeter with an interior described by Nicholas Pevsner as "among the most confusing of any church... in England". The church may have been founded as early as the 6th century, but other sources date it to the 11th century. William the Conqueror directed the City Provost to pay it one silver penny out of the public taxes, along with 29 other churches. The current building dates originally from early medieval times and is dedicated to St Petrock, who was a 6th-century Roman Catholic Welsh abbot who was later granted the title of saint by the Vatican.

Wikipedia: St Petrock's Church, Exeter (EN), Heritage Website

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: St Pancras' Church

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St Pancras Church is a small church situated in the middle of the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter. The majority of the church dates from the thirteenth century, although the font is eleventh century. The church probably occupies the oldest Christian site in Exeter, and is usually open on weekdays. The church is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: St Pancras Church, Exeter (EN)

246 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: St Martin's

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St Martin's Church in Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon, England was built in the 15th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was vested in the Trust on 1 August 1995.

Wikipedia: St Martin's Church, Exeter (EN)

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Exeter Cathedral

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Exeter Cathedral Antony McCallum / CC BY-SA 3.0

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. 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.

Wikipedia: Exeter Cathedral (EN), Website, Heritage Website

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 12: Barnfield Theatre

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The Barnfield Theatre is a theatre in Exeter, England, located near the centre of the city on Barnfield Road, Southernhay. It was originally built as the Barnfield Hall near the end of the 19th century by Exeter Literary Society, and was converted to a theatre in 1972.

Wikipedia: Barnfield Theatre (EN), Website

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