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Tudor City
The early Tudor period brought a dramatic rise in the city’s prosperity, and by the 1520s it had returned to a position among the top half-dozen English towns, after London, Norwich, York, Bristol and Newcastle. The foundation of this new prosperity was the Devon cloth industry: cloth woven in rural Devon was brought into the city for dyeing and finishing before being exported to France, the Mediterranean and the Low Countries.
Exeter played a part in some of the most dramatic events of Tudor England. Citizens defended their walls against the army of the pretender Perkin Warbeck in 1497, and again against the south-western rebels in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. Some of the famous figures of Elizabethan Devon are associated with the city - among them the Devon sea-captains Walter Ralegh and Francis Drake, and Nicholas Hilliard, the painter of miniature portraits at the court of Elizabeth I.
The parishes of central Exeter
A detail of Hogenburg’s map
The Hogenburg map
Hayman’s engraving of the interior of Eastgate
The museum model of Eastgate
Side view of the East Gate model
The Guildhall façade when complete
A capital from the Guildhall facade
A sculpted panel from the Guildhall facade
The Elizabethan door of the Guildhall
’The Elizabethan portico of the Guildhall’ by Arthur Glennie
The Quay in circa 1605
The Watergate
Animal bones from Polsloe Priory
The hall of the Vicars Choral
The demolition of St Nicholas Priory
An Elizabethan Communion cup and cover
Perspective painting of the reredos of Exeter Cathedral in the 1630s
46 High Street
Reconstruction of 46–7 High Street
41–42 High Street
The rear of 41–2 High Street
Section through 41–2 High Street
Part of the painted colour scheme of 42 High Street
Wooden overmantel from 229 High Street
A fireplace surround at 229 High Street
Overmantel from 229 High Street
The overmantel from 190 High Street
Part of the Elizabethan plaster ceiling at St Nicholas Priory
Drawing of plasterwork ceiling at 170–1 Fore Street
A carved board from 170–1 Fore Street
Plaster ceiling at 38 North Street
The rear courtyard of 38 North Street
Old houses in South Street
Painted panelling from 71 High Street
Looking out from Mols
The development of houses at Broadgate
Reconstruction view of Broadgate and adjacent houses
Tudor and Stuart houses around Westgate
Bamfylde House
A doorway from Larkbeare House
Cowick Barton
Old Matford
The group of finds from Queen Street pit 314
A maiolica dish from Montelupo, Tuscany
A dish of Tuscan maiolica from Goldsmith Street
A lustreware dish from Valencia
Plain tin–glazed pottery from Seville
A dish in cuerda seca style from Seville
An Elizabethan pharmacy jar from Paul Street
A stoneware jug from Siegburg
A series of drinking jugs of Raeren stoneware
Cologne stoneware
Cologne stoneware
Three Cologne stonewares
Cologne stoneware tankard
Two Frechen bottles
A Ming porcelain dish and saucer–dish
A Ming porcelain saucer–dish and cup
A flask of Islamic style
Fragments of Elizabethan luxury glass made in Venice
A glass beaker with trailed decoration
Two early 17th century wine glasses
A Westerwald stoneware jug
A Frechen stoneware cup with Exeter silver–gilt mounts
The Gilbert spoon
Pottery made by Dutch immigrants in Exeter
The Matthew the Miller clock, St Mary Steps church
The dial of the Matthew the Miller clock
The figure of ’Matthew the Miller’
The Birdall bell–foundry
A bell cast in the Exeter foundry c1620
The family coat of arms of the Bamfylde family
A mould for making a manilla
A cauldron
Mould fragments from cauldron casting
Tuckers Hall
A mould for casting the handle of a skillet
Early 17th century clay pipes made in Exeter
The Chevalier Inn, Fore Street
John Hooker
The Cathedral Close cemetery
A Beauvais drinking Jug
An imported medicine jar from Beauvais
The Apothecaries Hall
St John’s and the High Street
Doors of the High School
A ’hornbook’
229 High Street
Fragment of a sculpture of the Virgin and Child
Detail of the Hogenburg Map showing the Cathedral
Plan of Exeter c 1600
The front door of the Guildhall
A set of Elizabethan weights
Elizabethan wall painting at St Nicholas Priory
The ‘Tudor Room’ at St Nicholas Priory
View of the Matthew the Miller clock before restoration
Late medieval ridge–tile from Bowhill
A North Devon bowl of c 1600
A North Devon storage jar of c 1600
A distilling vessel in Totnes–type ware
An Elizabethan pottery bowl in Coarse Sandy Ware
A South Somerset slipware bowl
A ‘flute glass’ from Trichay Street
A blue glass dish imported from Venice
A Tudor garderobe seat
Inside Tuckers Hall
Reconstructions of the corn mill at Cricklepit Mill
Nicholas Hilliard
Joan Tuckfield
A bowls ball, tennis ball and gaming pieces
Exeter School
The Elizabethan country house at Hayes Barton
The Cricklepit area in the 17th century
Bamfylde House, Exeter
Measuring jug
Domesticated dogs
