The Mayor of Exeter called a meeting at the Guildhall to raise money for the restoration of Exeter cathedral. £25,000 was needed. Many city worthies came to the meeting and Bishop Frederick Temple was there. The Bishop said that:
"he wished to point out that there was a call on the citizens of Exeter to restore the fabric of their Cathedral because of the pride and affection which they must and ought to feel for it as belonging to their own town. There was also something ennobling in the desire which great and good men had felt at all times that they should hand down to posterity that which they had received from their ancestors in undiminished beauty and excellence. And so, too, they could not but feel that those great and good men in past days who had done anything for the city of Exeter, had a claim upon them that they should not neglect their work, but that they should hand it on no less glorious than they had received it..
"....It was for the honour and credit of the diocese that Exeter Cathedral should hold its rank among other Cathedrals, and that strangers, when they visited the West, should see that they really cared for that which belonged to their own native place, for that which was the pride and honour of their own part of their common country."
Source: The Exeter Flying Post, 7th Febtuary 1872.
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