St Peter’s Church, Snailwell c.1910 (photo Louis Cobbett) (Cambridgeshire Collection)

St Peter, Snailwell

History of St Peter

Listed Building

Parish Church. Nave wall possibly C11 with traces of original roof line in west wall. Early C13 chancel and south aisle, late C13 arcades to nave and north aisle. Late C15 clerestorey and hammer-beam roof. South aisle wall, south porch, north vestry and chancel and chancel arch rebuilt during 1878 restoration and east window inserted.

Coffin lid C13 sited beside south porch said to be of Knights Templars origin.

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St Peter’s church is one of two in Cambridgeshire with a round tower.

1908 The Rectory was hit by lightening CWN 10.7.1908

1959 renovation of the Rectory revealed that not only did much of the building date to the 16th century, but there was also the top of an arch from a building which stood on the site before the Norman Conquest.