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Latitude: 52.5725 / 52°34'21"N
Longitude: -0.2394 / 0°14'21"W
OS Eastings: 519416
OS Northings: 298645
OS Grid: TL194986
Mapcode National: GBR HZQ.LBK
Mapcode Global: WHHNK.9L8P
Plus Code: 9C4XHQF6+27
Entry Name: Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew
Listing Date: 7 February 1952
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1331492
English Heritage Legacy ID: 49632
Also known as: Saint Peter's Cathedral
ID on this website: 101331492
Location: St Peter's Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE1
County: City of Peterborough
Electoral Ward/Division: Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Peterborough
Traditional County: Northamptonshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Tagged with: Romanesque architecture Norman architecture English Gothic architecture Anglican or episcopal cathedral
819/1/1 PRECINCTS
07-FEB-52 PETERBOROUGH
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL
AND ST ANDREW
GV I
TL 1998 NW 1/1 7.2.52
Rebuilding, after a disastrous fire, commenced in 1118 under Abbot John de Seez. Barnack stone. Nave circa 1150, west end circa 1177. West front and main consecration in 1238. Tower 1315. Porch late Cl4. Windows mainly renewed in C14 and C15. Main restoration by J L Pearson in 1882-6.
Specially Important:-
Nave ceiling of circa 1220, decorated with lozenge shaped panels containing the figures of kings, queens, saints, monsters etc.
Retrochoir of 1496-1508 has 4 and 3 light windows with panel tracery separated by buttresses. Open parapet with seated figures on the tops of the buttresses. The interior has a handsome fan-vaulted roof on slender shafts, possibly designed by John Wastell who worked at King's College Cambridge.
Monuments: Hedda Stone of circa 800 - grey stone with a pitched roof, carved with an inhabited scroll with stiffly carved frontal figures. Effigies in Alwalton marble of 4 abbots of between 1195 to 1225. Remains of the tomb of Queen Katharine of Aragon. C15 brass lectern. Glass of 1862 by Morris, Marshall and Faulkner in the south transept on the south wall.
VCH (Northants) Vol II. NMR.
Listing NGR: TL1941698645
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