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St Peter's Church, Cambridge

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St Peter's is now a single-cell church with a west tower and an octagonal 14th-century spire with dormers. Construction is of stone rubble with pebble for the tower and ashlar for the spire. The church was rebuilt on a reduced scale in 1781, although there are several surviving medieval details. It
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came to the Crown, and Elizabeth I granted it to the See of Ely. In 1650 the town commissioners found that St Peter's had neither parsonage nor vicarage, and recommended that the parish should be united with St Giles'. It has been annexed to the vicarage of St Giles for several hundred years.
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The present structure is the remnant of one that went back to the 12th century, with a nave, chancel, south aisle, and west tower and spire. Former
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The church is usually open and sometimes hosts art exhibitions in cooperation with the Kettle's Yard gallery.
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at the angles. By the beginning of the 20th Century the building was almost derelict again. The
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Alison Taylor suggests that, due to its location, across the Roman road from
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Taylor, Alison (1999), "Cemeteries and Re-Growth: The Anglo-Saxon Period",
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has a 13th-century south doorway, and a 12th-century font, decorated with
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The church was gradually restored with concreted stone in the 1930s.
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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely:
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Churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust
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Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge (1959)
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Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
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redundant
Church of England
Anglican
Cambridge
Diocese of Ely
Castle Street
Kettle's Yard
Churches Conservation Trust
Castle
Little St Mary's
county archaeologist
St Giles' Church
Tudor monarchy
advowson
mermen
weathervane
Andrew Perne
vice-chancellor of Cambridge University
dean of Ely
Papist
Protestant
Puritan
A Bearded Iris by the Church entrance.
Interior from under the tower
South door
12th-century baptismal font
Stained glass
Saint Peter's keys
Memorial stone to Jim Ede "who created Kettle's Yard and helped to preserve this church"

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