Items (24 total)
University Cathedral service
Photograph includes David Harrison (VC), Rev V White (Lazenby chaplain), John Stirling (University Librarian) and F Oliver (Marshall).
Exeter
Framed colour plan of Exeter, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. The plan is decorated with illustrations of the Guildhall, Exeter Cathedral, Northern Hay, the Post Office and St. Sidwells, drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles.
Exeter
Framed plan of Exeter showing the existing boundaries (in green) and the proposed boundary changes (in yellow), produced by Lieutenant Robert Kearsley Dawson, Royal Engineers. This plan was the result of the Reform Bill of 1831 and the Boundaries Act…
Excester in Engellandt
This map of Exeter, based on John Hooker’s 1587 map, was published in the book ‘Libellus novus politicus emblematicus civitatum’ and is used to point out the dangers of excessive lust. The Latin and German texts describe how the female serpent bites…
Civitas Exoniae (vulgo Excester) urbs primaria in comitatu Devoniae
Framed copy of map of Exeter, engraved by Frans Hogenberg and printed in Vol. 6 of Georg Braun's 'Theatri praecipuarum totius mundi urbium'. It was based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Silver Jubilee, 1977, of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: presentation folder for the schoolchildren of Exeter containing copies of Richard Izack's 1677 map of Exeter and Miss P.V.Pitman's etching of the Guildhall
This presentation folder was gifted to the schoolchildren of Exeter in 1977 to mark the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. It included a modern copy of a map of Exeter originally engraved by Richard Izacke in 1677. Izacke's map was based…
Rag week boat race across the Exe
View across the Exe looking towards Mount Dinham.
View from Queen's Building
Photograph of the city of Exeter from the Queen's Building, Streatham campus.
Northcott Theatre
Exterior photograph of the Northcott Theatre, University of Exeter
Gandy Street, Exeter
Exterior photograph of university premises in Gandy Street, Exeter. The building was purpose built with 40 rooms and a lecture theatre, it opened in 1911 and was sold by the University in 1983.
City of Exeter Town Map 1951
Folded town planning map of Exeter, produced by Cook, Hammond and Kell for the Planning Officer at Exeter City Council in 1951. The city underwent a period of post-war rebuilding in the late 1940s and early 1950s, for which the City Council may have…
Bomb damaged Registry building, University College of the South West
Photograph of the exterior of the Registry of the University College of the South West, damaged in the Exeter Blitz in May 1942. Most of the college records were also destroyed.
Map of Exeter in 1832: Shewing the localities where the Deaths caused by Pestilential Cholera occurred in the years 1832, 1833, & 1834
A modern copy of a map by Dr. Thomas Shapter, printed in 'The History of the Cholera in Exeter in 1832' (1849). The first cholera outbreak reached England in the autumn of 1831 and arrived in Exeter in July 1832. Horizontal bars (1832), diamonds…
Plan of Exeter from actual Survey
This detailed plan of Exeter was produced by John Wood for the Improvement Commissioners in the late 1830s. It shows individual plots, as well as ward and parish boundaries. A legend at the side lists public buildings and places of worship in the…
The City of Exeter 1835
Town plan of Exeter on paper, engraved by William Schmollinger, with illustrations of St. Peter's Cathedral, the Guildhall, the Castle, and the Exe Bridge by R. Brown. It includes a legend to public buildings and the parishes, churches and chapels.
Exeter
Plan of Exeter, engraved by John Roper under the direction of J. Britton from a drawing by I. Hayman. This plan was removed from 'The British Atlas...' (1810) by G. Cole and J. Roper. It was originally engraved in 1805 and printed in 'The Beauties of…
Exonia. Excester.
Colour map of Exeter by Rutger Hemannides, based upon the 1587 map by John Hooker, originally engraved by Remigius Hogenberg.
Isca Danmoniorum: britanice Kaier penhuelgorte: Saxonice Monketon: Latine Exonia: Anglice Exeancestre vel Exestre at nunc Vulgo Exeter: urbs perãtiqua, et Emporium celeberrimum
Isca Danmoniorum is the earliest known printed map of Exeter. It was commissioned by John Hooker, the first Chamblerlain of Exeter, from the Flemish engraver Remigius Hogenberg, and formed the basis of all printed maps of Exeter for more than a…