Georges Meeting House, South Street

This is a fine example of a Presbyterian Chapel, that was founded in 1760. and named George's Meeting House, the coronation year of George III. It was financed by the Bowring and Baring families of Exeter, amongst others. "Iron Sam" Kingdon born in 1779, and was baptised in George's Meeting House.

The facade is of red brick, framed with light coloured quoins (edge stones). There is a front porch with Tuscan columns and a shallow pitched roof. The interior, a simple rectangular space with a plain, flat, plaster ceiling, was designed to allow the resident preacher to be seen and heard clearly from the carved pulpit, imported from their earlier meeting house in James Street. There are Ionic columns lining three sides supporting an oak panelled gallery. There was seating for 200 persons.

The congregation declined during the 20th-century, and the building was sold in 1987, as an antique centre. It was later used to retail furniture and artifacts from around the world and was known as the Global Village.

J D Wetherspoon purchased the old church and opened their second pub in Exeter on 16 January 2005. It was the first Wetherspoons, and also the first pub in Exeter to not allow smoking. Their conversion has preserved many of its features and saved a fine building from further dereliction.