Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL AND ST ANDREW, PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331492
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL AND ST ANDREW, PRECINCTS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1331492
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL AND ST ANDREW, PRECINCTS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PAUL AND ST ANDREW, PRECINCTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19416 98645
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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