Exeter Christmas Market on Cathedral Green

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This year's Christmas Market will run from Saturday 16th November until Thursday 19th December organised by Exeter Cathedral.

The market support local businesses and performers, with an exciting mix of continental and local, independent traders, showcasing the best of festive food, crafts and gifts.

This year promises to be better than ever with more stalls for local businesses and another drinks outlet where visitors can buy mulled wine, cider and gin. A Mulled Wine Shack selling hot toddies and mulled wine from a giant teepee tent - complete with a roaring fire - will be run by Oddfellows, who also run the big main bar. 

Adding to the twinkly lights which give the Bavarian village its winter wonderland feel, there will be an enormous illuminated Christmas star suspended above the main frontage of the Cathedral for the first time. The star measures three metres by four metres and it will hang above the West front on the main square.

Another change announced for 2019 is that the bandstand is being replaced with a beautiful nativity scene complete with 6ft models of Mary, Joseph and the three wise men in the square on the West Front.

Throughout the 34 days of the Christmas Market the Cathedral itself will be free entry to encourage people at the Christmas market to also take a look inside - the Cathedral has the longest stretch of vaulted ceiling in the world.