Festive Christmas market with wooden chalets, local produce and gifts, mulled cider and live choirs on Exeter Cathedral Green.
Exeter Cathedral Christmas Market returns to Exeter Cathedral Green on Friday 13 November, running through to Sunday 13 December. It's the largest Christmas market in Devon, drawing around 600,000 visitors over the month, with more than three-quarters coming from Exeter and the wider county. Wooden chalets fill the Green beneath the cathedral's twin Norman towers and west front, and the organisers pick their traders with a lean towards the South West, mixing West Country produce and locally made gifts with things from further afield. The whole thing takes its cue from the historic Christmas markets of Germany, but keeps a strong Exeter and South West identity.
The food end tends to get more praise than the shopping, with visitors often singling out the mulled cider over the mulled wine. On busier days, choirs sing by the cathedral entrance, and the cathedral itself continues its evensong and carol services, with entry by donation. Those proceeds support the ongoing work of Exeter Cathedral, which is a registered charity.
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It's a long run, so you've got plenty of time to fit it in. From Monday to Wednesday it's open 10am to 7pm; Thursday to Saturday it stays open later, from 10am to 9pm; and on Sundays it's 11am to 5pm. It closes on Christmas Day. Admission is free, and the market is at Exeter Cathedral Green, Cathedral Close, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1HS.
