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A stone church tower with a crenellated roof rises above the nave, set in a grassy churchyard framed by dark trees.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden

History of St Peter and St Paul

Listed Building

Parish church. Mid C13 and C14. Restored 1858 and 1885-8.

Base of churchyard cross. Medieval. (Historic England)

The church contains a C13th font, a C15th screen and a tower house with three bells. One of the bells is inscribed ‘Non clamor sed amor cantat in aure Dei.’

A line drawing shows a group of people receiving coins from a man in an archway, accompanied by historical text.

Urbs Camboritum, Little Gransden

A stone church with a crenellated tower seen through trees and a churchyard with several stone grave markers.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

The interior of a church with white walls, dark wooden roof beams, and rows of pews facing an ornate wooden rood screen.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

Ornate carved wooden rood screen with a central doorway framing an altar draped in purple and orange before a red curtain.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

A document written in ornate calligraphy listing the names of rectors at St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden, since 1267.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

Stained glass depicts a bearded man and a woman in a headscarf looking down at an infant lying in a straw-filled manger.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

Stained glass panel showing a fair-haired child in a floral robe kneeling in a garden and holding a small white flower.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

Stained glass window divided into two arched lights showing figures in biblical attire against a landscape and blue sky.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

Stained glass window depicting a woman and child on the left and a man holding a child above a kneeling figure on the right.

St Peter and St Paul, Little Gransden (RGL2025)

A narrow, arched stone window with two lights and carved tracery, featuring dark stained glass panels with faint illustrations.

Little Gransden, 14th cent. (RCHM)

Building dates

Built 1230–1270

Source for this date

Built 1230–1270: Listed building: Mid C13

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Listed building
medieval

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