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A Paper on the Statue of St Peter, North Street, Exeter

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Thomas George Norris Esq.

In Exeter Diocesan Architectural Soc. Trans. Vol 1, (Second Series).Exeter: William Pollard, North Street (1862).
Read at the College Hall, Exeter, 22nd September. pp. 159-162.

Prepared by Michael Steer

A carved statue of St Peter holding a church and the keys of heaven while trampling the Devil, once stood on the corner of 187 High Street and North Street, Exeter, in a niche over the window of Holman Ham the Chemist. The location is still referred to as 'St Peter's Corner' It is thought that the figure dates from the late 15th or early 16th-century. Carved from oak, it is not typical of local work, nor of English carving. The figure was removed from its position in the High Street, in 1986, to Exeter Museum where it has been carefully conserved. This rare book was produced from a digital copy held by the University of Michigan Library that can be downloaded from Google Books. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. Those on which copyright has expired are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.