New structure will be reinstated as gallery and event space
Exeter Cathedral is looking for a contractor with heritage experience to rebuild a cloister gallery demolished nearly 400 years ago during the English Civil War.
The grade I-listed cathedral wants to reinstate the cloister, which was torn down during a period of religious strife in the 1640s, as a gallery and event space.
The £2.3m job, which has been mostly funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, will also see an extension to a 19th century library building on the site designed by Victorian gothic revival architect John Loughborough Pearson.
