Reconstruction view of the College of Vicars Choral
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The Vicars Choral were the junior clergy of the cathedral who sang the many daily services in its choir. In the years 1383-88 Bishop Brantingham built for them this college, where each was allocated a lodging, and where their lives could be more closely supervised. The college was squeezed into a narrow site between the Deanery (right) and St Mary Major church (top left). The rows of lodgings were demolished in stages between 1850 and 1893; the hall in South Street stood until 1942, when it was burnt in the Exeter Blitz. Only the ruined shell of the hall survives today.
Acknowledgments: R.Parker, Exeter Archaeology