A special announcement regarding The Exeter Book: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. You can now see the newly-revealed page of The Exeter Book – a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles. Exeter Cathedral’s expert Guides are on-hand to offer regular tours throughout the week, giving visitors the opportunity to explore in more detail The Exeter Book and its fascinating riddles. — Plan your visit: ✦ Monday-Saturday: 10am-4pm ✦ Closed on Wednesdays & Sundays ✦ 45-minute tours with an expert Guide available at 10am, 12pm and 3pm ✦ Access to the Treasures Exhibition is included in the Cathedral admission fee ✦ Free access with a locals' Welcome Card We look forward to showing you these rarely-seen Anglo-Saxon riddles! #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Here’s what’s on this week at Exeter Cathedral: ✦ Spotlight on… The Exeter Book (28 September) ✦ Stones & Bones Tour (29 September) ✦ Roof Tour (30 September) ✦ Wish You Were Here: A Love Of Postcards (1 October) ✦ Armonico Consort: Tallis ‘Spem in Alium’ and Monteverdi ‘Vespers’ (2 October) Find out more: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Join us in praying over this coming week 🙏 Gracious God, you call us to fullness of life: deliver us from unbelief and banish our anxieties with the liberating love of Jesus Christ our Lord #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

This week we celebrated the completion of a huge project to catalogue and number about 2500 pamphlets in the Cathedral Library. 🎉 Every week for about a year, our dedicated volunteer, Elizabeth, has been helping to improve access to and information about a fascinating collection of pamphlets dating from the 18th century to the present day. The work has been meticulous – and not especially glamorous! – but it’s been crucial to transform a large and previously difficult-to-navigate collection into a valuable and accessible resource. 🔗 To read more visit: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Today’s autumn equinox seems like a fitting day to admire Exeter Cathedral’s remarkable astronomical clock. The great dial dates from the fifteenth century and presents the medieval, geocentric understanding of the heavens, with the Sun and Moon circling the Earth. Beneath the dial is a wonderfully evocative Latin inscription, quoting the first-century AD Roman poet, Martial: PEREUNT ET IMPUTANTUR The hours pass and are reckoned to our account. In their original context, these words are not so much a meditation on mortality as an exhortation to live. Martial’s poem fantasises about a life free from the monotony and pressures of public life. Within this context, Martial muses not simply upon the passage of time, but upon how life is spent on things other than living: one should enjoy the fruits of friendship, love and leisure. For, truly, ‘Does any man, knowing the way to live, defer it?’. Yet by inscribing these words on a medieval clock, and by installing the clock in the house of our Lord, the maxim’s significance is augmented. The hours pass; our earthly lives are finite; come the time of our judgment, we shall face God’s reckoning. No matter which interpretation is most resonant, as our daylight hours diminish across the British Isles in preparation for winter, it is worth pausing to consider how we value our most precious asset: time. #Equinox #AstronomicalClock

Performances begin tonight! Fancy a good laugh and the chance to forget about day-to-day life for an evening? You're invited to Cathedral Players' hilarious performance of Merry Wives of Windsor – Shakespeare's comedy classic! Final tickets are available for the four performances on 23, 24, 25 & 26 September at 7:30pm. Click here for more information and tickets: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… See you there! #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Here’s what’s on this week at Exeter Cathedral: ✦ Library & Archives In Focus – The West Front (22 September) ✦ Roof Tour (23 September) ✦ The Merry Wives of Windsor (23-26 September) ✦ Art of the Book: 1000 Years of Bookbinding (24 September) ✦ Roof Tour (24 September) ✦ Craft Workshop At Exeter Cathedral Café (25 September) Find out more: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Join us in praying over this coming week 🙏 Lord of creation, whose glory is around and within us: open our eyes to your wonders, that we may serve you with reverence and know your peace at our lives’ end, through Jesus Christ our Lord. #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

The iconic West Front of Exeter Cathedral, with its magnificent carved stone image screen, is a medieval masterpiece familiar to many of us — but how well do you really know it? Who and what do those carvings actually depict? 🤔 That is what we will be considering at this month’s ‘In Focus’ exhibition on Tuesday 22 September. 🔗 To read more visit: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Student at Exeter University? Tempted by a free barista drink + cake? Interested in exploring or deepening your faith? You are warmly invited to experience our relaxed, loving community of regular worshippers in our 1,000-year-old Cathedral during any of our Sunday services on: 20 September, 27 September and 4 October. Come along and feel absolutely no obligation to return. This is a great opportunity to: ✦ see a living Cathedral congregation in action ✦ explore volunteering opportunities ✦ join our young adult’s WhatsApp group chat ✦ enjoy free refreshments at our Café (don’t forget to collect your voucher after the service) Join us for any of these Sunday services: Holy Communion (8am), Morning Prayer (9am), Choral Eucharist (10am), Choral Evensong (4pm). Just pop in via the main entrance of the Cathedral and someone at our Welcome Desk will show you where to go. See you soon! #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

@ExeterCathedral Extraordinary tour of your Treasures Exhibition today. The Exeter Book is certainly a treasure and a pleasure to see. The excerpt and recording of the Wanderer helped bring it to life. Thank you. #exetercathedral

Save the dates: 6-9 January. A breathtaking new experience created by @luxmuralis is coming to Exeter Cathedral. More information and a first limited run of tickets will be available soon. P.S. 🦖🦕 #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Looking for an evening to relax? 😌 Enjoy arts & crafts? 🎨 If this sounds like you, why not join us in our Café on Friday 25 September from 6pm - 8pm. You will have a choice between three crafts, beginners embroidery, making a knotty bracelet or creating your own lino cut stamp. Tickets cost £25 and includes the cost of the materials 🔗 exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Here’s what’s on this week at Exeter Cathedral: ✦ Leading Ladies: Stories of Ordinary & Extraordinary Women (15 September) ✦ Library & Archives: Looking at Letters (Free Drop-In Event) (16 September) ✦ Roof Tour (16 September) ✦ The Music of Oasis by Candlelight (17 September) ✦ Roof Tour (17 September) ✦ A Night at the Opera (18 September) ✦ Roof Tour (18 September) ✦ Roof Tour (19 September) Find out more: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Join us in praying over this coming week 🙏 Lord God, defend your Church from all false teaching and give to your people knowledge of your truth, that we may enjoy eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Experience Exeter from above… Our highly-rated Roof Tours and Onwards & Upwards Tours take you 140ft up onto our North Norman Tower for panoramic views of Exeter and beyond. "We have been on at least half a dozen other roof/tower tours - this was one of the best" – recent Tripadvisor review Explore tour dates and book your place here: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/plan… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

Hurry! Tickets are selling fast for the Cathedral Players performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Get ready for four enjoyable evenings filled with outrageous French accents, plenty of laughs and a touch of the ridiculous! Find our how Sir Falstaff attempts to seduce not one, but two wives of Windsor! 📅 23, 24, 25 & 26 September 2026 ⏰ 7:30pm - 10pm 📍Exeter Cathedral ⭐️ Tickets from £5 To book your tickets visit: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/what… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

This image from the Cathedral Library depicts the opening of the first book of The Odyssey in Eustathius’s commentary. Homer’s original Greek text is printed on the left of the page in slightly larger font, beginning with a decorative woodcut capital A for ‘Andra’, meaning ‘Man’. To find out more visit: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/news… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

A prayer for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Its back! Our annual autumn fair will be here in the awe-inspiring Nave on: 🍁 Tuesday 13 October, 6:30pm – 9pm 🍁 Wednesday 14 October, 10am – 3:30pm Don't forget to book your free tickets (now available!) from our website – all pre-booked tickets include a glass of mulled wine! 🔗 To book your free tickets visit: exeter-cathedral.org.uk/even… #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral