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A tall stone church with a crenellated tower and a small spire, framed by green trees against a blue sky with white clouds.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

St Peter, Wilburton

History of St Peter

Listed Building

Parish church. C13 remains in chancel arch, tower and tower arch. Mainly late C14-early C15. (Historic England)

Monochrome interior of a church chancel, featuring an altar with floral arrangements beneath a large, intricate stained-glass window.

St Peter Wilburton

Interior view of a church nave with rows of wooden pews facing a central ornate wooden screen and stone arched chancel.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Interior view of a church featuring a dark timbered ceiling with arched beams above wooden pews and a decorative rood screen.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Intricate dark wood rood screen under a stone arch and exposed timber roof within the nave of St Peter's Church, Wilburton.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Stained glass window divided into five main panels featuring biblical scenes including the Ascension and the Crucifixion.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Floor plan drawing of St Peter’s Church in Wilburton, showing the building layout and locations of various historical features.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A rustic wooden stool with the date 1747 carved into its front rail stands on a tiled floor against a dark panelled background.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A vertical wooden plaque displays a brass monumental effigy of a robed figure under a gothic arch, bordered by Latin script.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Faded wall painting on stone showing two standing figures in mitres, each holding a long staff, next to a stained-glass window.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

An arched wooden door with iron hinges stands beside a white wall with embedded stone carvings featuring diamond motifs.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Ornate stone wall monument with a gothic canopy, a central cross, two small stone caskets, and an inscribed base panel.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A brass commemorative plaque with etched text and a central heraldic crest, mounted horizontally on a light stone ledge.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A rectangular stone memorial plaque inscribed with the names, birth, and death dates of members of the Pell family.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Rectangular stone plaque with black engraved lettering commemorating Claus Pell, who died in 1840, mounted on a white wall.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A bronze crucifix flanked by two large bronze hands mounted on a white wall above a commemorative plaque in a church.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A rectangular bronze plaque with engraved, light-colored lettering dedicated to the Pell family in St Peter’s Church.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A tall, arched stone church window filled with leaded diamond-pattern glass featuring occasional leaf-shaped accents.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Two sets of recessed stone panels featuring relief carvings of standing figures are set into a white church interior wall.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Large vertical metal organ pipes are set within a tall stone Gothic arched window frame, supported by wooden horizontal beams.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

An ornate stone wall plaque with a central oval inscription memorialising William Camps Gent, who died in November 1785.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Polished brass memorial plaque in a dark wood frame commemorating Lance Corporal John Fredk Manners Croft, who died in 1915.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

A stone wall topped by a wooden ceiling with carved corbels supporting beams, viewed from below in an arched porch.

St Peter Wilburton (RGL2026)

Building dates

Built c. 1250

Source for this date

Built 1200–1299: Listed building: C13 (grade I)

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Listed building
medieval

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