Transcription from a plaque in the Holy Cross Church transcribed by Dr Michael J. Fennessy in 2006.
Full details of the memorial (including a photograph and its exact location) can be accessed by downloading the data file from the CMIAR website.
[Symbol at top of Cross circumscribed with the following text in Old English capital letters]
SIOILL SANCTE CRVCIS DE CRIDINT
[End of text within symbol]
[Main text in English follows - a dot at mid font height occurs between all words but this has been omitted for ease or reading]
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
& AS A RECORD OF THE SERVICE HELD ON WEDNESDAY
JUNE 9TH 1909 IN THIS CHURCH OF THE HOLY CROSS ON
THE OCCASION OF THE MILLENARY OF THE CONSECRATION
OF THE FIRST BISHOP OF CREDITON
THE COMMEMORATION WAS FIXED FOR JUNE 9TH AS BEING THE NEAREST CONVENIENT DATE TO JUNE 5TH
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARTYRDOM OF WINNIFRITH
(ST BONIFACE) WHO WAS BORN AT CREDITON IN THE YEAR
680 AND THROUGH WHOSE INFLUENCE A GRANT OF LAND
WAS MADE BY AETHELHEARD KING OF WESSEX THROUGH
FORTHERE BISHOP OF SHERBORNE TO FOUND A MONASTERY
AT CREDITON IN 739
THE FOLLOWING WERE PRESENT
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY: THE BISHOPS OF
EXETER BRISTOL SALISBURY BATH & WELLS CREDITON
MARLBOROUGH (DEAN OF EXETER) AND ST. GERMANS
THE GOVERNORS OF THE CHURCH:THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF EXETER: THE CANONS
& VICARS CHORAL AND 8 OF THE PREBENDARIES OF
THE CATHEDRAL: THE CLERGY OF THE DEANERY OF
CADBURY: A LERGE NUMBER OF PARISHIONERS AND
OTHERS ALSO ATTENDED THE SERVICE
THE SERMON WAS PREACHED BY THE BISHOP OF BRISTOL
[Two panels of electro etched signatures]
WALTER M SMITH DORIEN
VICAR