St Peter’s Church, Cambridge
St Peter, Cambridge
History of St Peter's Cambridge
St Peter 19th cent
According to Pevsner, this was a small church made very small by rebuilding in 1781. Only the C14 W tower and part of the unaisled nave were kept.
View of St Peter from Castle Mound. Engraving by W T Harries, pub C Frank, Cambridge c.1800
St Peter’s Cambridge, R Farren 1881
St Peter’s c.1900
More information about this now redundant church can be found on Wikipedia.
St Peter’s in 1937 and cottages which would become Kettle’s Yard Gallery to the right.
St Peter’s is thought to have been built on the site of a Roman temple of Diana. A particularly interesting feature is the Saxon font, and its decoration with rather pagan looking mermen. An interesting article on it can be found here:
http://bystargooseandhanglands.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/four-mermen-in-twenty-first-century.html
A B Gray in Cambridge Revisited points out that Roman bricks have been incorporated into the wall on the south side. He shows a basso-relievo on a Roman brick said to have been take from the foundations of the church and inserted into the wall of a nearby cottage.
St Peter Roman brick
The Smallest Church in all England: from Leaflets of Local Lore by Urbs Camboritum (Cambs Collection)
St Peter’s Cambridge, 1969 p1
St Peter’s Cambridge, 1969 p2
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St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
St Peter, Cambridge (RGL2024)
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