This is a seal impression which was attached to an official document. The earliest example of the use of this seal is on a document of 1133. At that date the Saxon cathedral in Exeter was still standing, and construction of the Norman towers had not yet begun.
The image on the seal is of a church building which might be the Saxon cathedral, but it is very uncertain whether such depictions were anything like the buildings they symbolised.
The first seal of the Chapter of Exeter
Contributed by RAMM Exeter
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