EDGT owns and maintains the Dissenters' graveyard in Exeter.
Exeter, UK
Joined March 2014
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New biogs added to edgt.org.uk for two influential ministers - Rev Micaiah Towgood and his cousin Rev Stephen Towgood. Lots of other excellent biogs have been uploaded this year #Exeter #Devon @godsacre @devonfhresearch
ALT A receipt from 1767 with signatures of Micaiah and Stephen Towgood and Abraham Tozer, all dissenting ministers in Exeter.
Thanks to everyone who visited the graveyard during @heritageopenday recently. We enjoyed a lovely music performance from the West Gallery Quire to whom we are very grateful. Our gates will be open each Wednesday (10am-4pm) until the end of October.
We've been off-line for a few months, but we've been very busy working on biographies of people buried in @ExeterDGT. We are also installing lots of signs in the graveyard so that visitors can access our research work on their phones.@HeritageFundL_S - edgt.org.uk
If you like graveyard archaeology you'll love @BBCTwo's Britain's Biggest Dig #BiggestDig (Tuesdays 9p.m. BBC2). We have a link between @ExeterDGT and the #HS2Digs at St James's London - Capt Matthew Flinders and Catherine Hippius. See bit.ly/32J7LSB. @MOLArchaeology
We’re open today and have had a stream of visitors. If you are in @visitexeter today or tomorrow please pop in (11-4). @heritageopenday @godsacre #scanourQR
We will be open this weekend - 12th/13th September between the hours of 11 and 4 for @heritageopenday. We are trialling the use of QR codes in the graveyard to enable visitors to access information in our database. Please pop along if you are in Exeter and #scanourQR!
Huge thanks from @ExeterDGT to all those players of
@TNLUK #NationalLottery for making it possible for
@HeritageFundUK to provide an emergency grant to us. The grant will be used wisely and will help to tell our story to visitors for years to come. #thankstoyou
Just written a short piece for m.facebook.com/Devonandcornw… daily blog. They are intending to post one invited contribution each day throughout June and July - it’s an excellent initiative @devonassoc @DevonGardens #DCRSdaily
Great effort to get the DFH out - lots of interesting content as always.
Delighted that our memorial landscape is included in the @DevonGardens journal. Thanks for accepting our article. @godsacre @devonhistorysoc @DevonHeritage
Our latest journal is in the post to our members. Well researched articles include The Edinburgh tree in Exeter and Langstone Cliff Cottage near Dawlish. @thegardenstrust @devon_ex_inst @ExeterDGT @LangstoneCliff
Our booklet on the graveyard is now available at a special discounted price of £2.50+p&p. It covers the origins of the site to the present day conservation work. It's great value and proceeds go to our maintenance work. edgt.org.uk/booklet.html @devonfhresearch @devonhistorysoc
We want to turn the negatives created by #Covid_19 into a positive contribution to #Exeter's history. We are seeking memories, anecdotes & photographs of the Dissenters' graveyard, Magdalen Street or George's Meeting House in South Street. See edgt.org.uk/news.html for details.
This is a wonderful exhibition ably demonstrating the exquisite skills of Devon lacemakers. @RAMMuseum #Devon #DevonLacemakers
These late 19th-century laces still have original price tickets from Mrs. J. Tucker & Sons of Exeter.
See them, and more beautiful #Devon #lace, in "By Royal Appointment: Devon Lace-makers," on until 31 May.
#ByRoyalAppointment #lace-making #DevonLacemakers #DevonLace
Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
Wed 27th Nov, 1pm - come along and hear Dr Ian Varndell @ExeterDGT speak for our next lunchtime lecture!
Tickets £5 and more info at nicholaspriory.com/events/sa…… @ExeterHBT @Devon_Hour @visitexeter #exeter #visitexeter
Anna Wilhelmina Merivale (1782-1815) wrote detailed and witty letters to her friends and family. Read the account of her brother's marriage to Louisa Drury in July 1805 edgt.org.uk/uploads/3/4/6/9/… @partoyster @devonhistorysoc
Looking forward to talking about the graveyard at 21 The Mint on 27th November - see nicholaspriory.com/events/sa…. @nixpriory @exploringexeter @devonassoc @devonhistorysoc
Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
The story of how Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susanna Edwards came to the gallows is a tragic one that serves as a dark reminder of England's superstitious past 🧙♀️
bit.ly/342Oyce
Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
Some people think visiting cemeteries is morbid, but they used to be popular places of recreation:
This 1881 Globe article noted how, "The city burial grounds vie with the city parks in their attractions for the idler on a summer day," and were, "thronged" with visitors. 👍👍
Our gates are open today, so if you feel like braving the wet and windy weather please visit the graveyard and have a look around. More information is available on edgt.org.uk
Exeter Dissenters’ Graveyard Trust retweeted
ST NICHOLAS PRIORY is open tomorrow (Sunday) from 1-4pm Come and explore almost 1000 years of Exeter's history
Find us hidden away at The Mint (off Fore Street) #Exeter
FREE ADMISSION
@nixpriory #visitexeter @Devon_Hour #thingstodoinexeter #Exeterheritage
