Discover Exeter’s Blue Plaques & Commemorative Signs
There are Blue Plaques together with other memorial signs dotted around Exeter. These commemorative signs are put in public places as a historical reference and remembrance to a notable person, a significant event, or a historic building.
A scheme that is administered by the Exeter Civic Society is dedicated to installing future plaques as monuments to mark remarkable episodes, and create interest in the city’s history.
Visitors to Exeter and its residents are encouraged to look for these plaques, and discover, and learn more about how these associations connects Exeter today to the past.
Over time, this page aims to list a collection of the plaques and tributes that are available for discovery. Not just by visitors to find, but residents also, a number of which still unaware to their existence.
Commemorative Signs
Rougement Castle
Location: The gatehouse of the Castle
Installed for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
The Devon Witches Plaque
Location: Rougemont Castle gatehouse
The last people to be executed for witchcraft in England. They were tried at Rougemont Castle & hanged at Heavitree in the city.
Rougemont House and Gardens
Location: Rougement House, Castle Street
Installed for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
Blue Plaques
Charles Dickens
Location: 143 Fore Street, Exeter
Unveiled by journalist and crime writer Simon Hall in 2013.
Thomas Latimer
Location: 143 Fore Street, Exeter
Joint associated plaque with Charles Dickens
Unveiled by journalist and crime writer Simon Hall in 2013.
Abraham Cann
Location: on Bartholomew Street West
Unveiled on 7th April 2022
Violet and Dame Irene Vanbrugh
Location: walkway between Roman Walk and Southernhay
Charlie Brewer and Mary the Pigeon
Location: on West Street
Unveiled on 20 January 2018
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