Peterborough Cathedral#Misericords

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| dean = Chris Dalliston

| subdean = Tim Alban Jones (Vice-Dean)

| precentor = Rowan C. Williams

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| canonmissioner = Steve Benoy (designate)

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Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. The seat of the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough, it is dedicated to the Apostles Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the West Front. Founded in the Anglo-Saxon period as a minster it became one of England's most important Benedictine abbeys, becoming a cathedral only in 1542. Its architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. Alongside the cathedrals of Durham and Ely, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration, and is one of the nation's best preserved pre-Reformation abbeys.

Peterborough Cathedral is known for its imposing Early English Gothic West Front (façade) which, with its three enormous arches, is without architectural precedent and with no direct successor. The appearance is slightly asymmetrical, as one of the two towers that rise from behind the façade was never completed (the tower on the right as one faces the building), but this is only visible from a distance.

History

=Anglo-Saxon origins=

The original church, known as "Medeshamstede", was founded in the reign of the Anglo-Saxon King Peada of the Middle Angles in about 655 AD, as one of the first centres of Christianity in central England.{{cite book

| last = Sweeting

| first = W.D

| editor = Bell, E

| title = The Cathedral Church of Peterborough: A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See

| orig-year = 1898

| url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13618/13618-h/13618-h.htm

| access-date = 23 April 2007

| edition = Project Gutenberg transcription of the 1926 reprint of the 2nd

| series = Bell's Cathedrals

| date = 5 October 2004

| publisher = G. Bell and Sons

| location = London

| chapter = Chapter 1. History of the Cathedral Church of St Peter

| chapter-url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13618/13618-h/13618-h.htm#Page_3

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| archive-date = 29 September 2007

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}} The monastic settlement with which the church was associated lasted at least until 870, when it was supposedly destroyed by Vikings. In an alcove of the New Building, an extension of the eastern end, lies an ancient stone carving: the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peterborough_Cathedral_Hedda_Stone.jpg Hedda Stone]. This medieval carving of 12 monks, six on each side, commemorates the destruction of the Monastery and the death of the Abbot and Monks when the area was sacked by the Vikings in 864. The Hedda Stone was likely carved sometime after the raid, when the monastery slipped into decline.http://cambridgemilitaryhistory.com/2014/11/30/the-hedda-stone-and-peterborough-abbey/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208150807/http://cambridgemilitaryhistory.com/2014/11/30/the-hedda-stone-and-peterborough-abbey/ |date=8 December 2014 }} The Hedda Stone and Peterborough Cathedral at the Cambridge Military History Website

In the mid-10th century, monastic revival (during which churches at Ely and Ramsey were also refounded) a Benedictine Abbey was created and endowed in 966, principally by Athelwold, Bishop of Winchester, from what remained of the earlier church, with "a basilica [church] there furbished with suitable structures of halls, and enriched with surrounding lands" and more extensive buildings which saw the aisle built out to the west with a second tower added. The original central tower was, however, retained.{{cite book

| last = Biddick

| first = Kathleen

| title = The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate

| url = http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8199p22b&chunk.id=d0e213&toc.id=d0e208&toc.depth=1&brand=ucpress&anchor.id=JD_Page_13#X

| access-date = 25 April 2007

| year = 1989

| publisher = University of California Press

| isbn = 0-520-06388-0

| page = 13

| chapter = 1 – Consumption and Pastoral Resources on the Early Medieval Estate

| chapter-url = http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8199p22b&chunk.id=d0e203&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e203&brand=ucpress

| quote = He restored Peterborough Abbey to its former royal splendor and dedicated "a basilica there furbished with suitable structures of halls, and enriched with surrounding lands."

}} It was dedicated to St Peter and surrounded by a palisade, called a burgh, hence the town surrounding the abbey was eventually named Peter-burgh. The community was further revived in 972 by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.The most recent survey of the Anglo-Saxon history of Peterborough Abbey is in Kelly, S.E. (ed.), Charters of Peterborough Abbey, Anglo-Saxon Charters 14, OUP, 2009.

This newer church had as its major focal point a substantial western tower with a "Rhenish helm" and was largely constructed of ashlars.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Only a small section of the foundations of the Anglo-Saxon church remain beneath the south transept but there are several significant artefacts, including Anglo-Saxon carvings such as the Hedda Stone, from the earlier building.

In 2008, Anglo-Saxon grave markers were reported to have been found by workmen repairing a wall in the cathedral precincts. The grave markers are said to date to the 11th century, and probably belonged to "townsfolk".[http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/anglo-saxon-graves-found-at.html Anglo-Saxon graves found at Peterborough Cathedral.] Medievalists.net. Retrieved on 15 May 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001064547/http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/anglo-saxon-graves-found-at.html |date=1 October 2011 }}

=Norman and medieval architectural evolution=

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Although damaged during the struggle between the Norman invaders and local folk-hero, Hereward the Wake, it was repaired and continued to thrive until destroyed by an accidental fire in 1116.{{cite web |title=Peterborough Cathedral |url=http://easterncathedrals.org.uk/members/peterborough-cathedral.php |website=Eastern Cathedrals |access-date=11 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511082541/http://easterncathedrals.org.uk/members/peterborough-cathedral.php |archive-date=11 May 2019 |url-status=live }} This event necessitated the building of a new church in the Norman style, begun by Abbot John de Sais on 8 March 1118 (Old Style). By 1193, the building was completed to the western end of the Nave, including the central tower and the decorated wooden ceiling of the nave. The ceiling, completed between 1230 and 1250, still survives. It is unique in Britain and one of only four such ceilings in the whole of Europe.The others are at Zillis, Switzerland, Hildesheim in Germany and Dädesjö, Sweden. The longest of these is less than half the length of Peterborough's ceiling. It has been over-painted twice, once in 1745, then in 1834, but still retains the character and style of the original. (The painted nave ceiling of Ely Cathedral, by contrast, is entirely a Victorian creation.)

The church was largely built of Barnack limestone from quarries on its own land, and it was paid annually for access to these quarries by the builders of Ely Cathedral and Ramsey Abbey in thousands of eels (e.g. 4,000 each year by Ramsey).{{cite web

| url = http://www.ramseyabbey.co.uk/abbots.html#Alfwin%20Fifth%20Abbot%201043-1080

| title = Abbots of Ramsey

| access-date = 23 January 2007

| last = Beeke

| first = Clive

| year = 2006

| work = Ramsey Abbey website

| publisher = Clive Beeke

| quote = Edward [the Confessor] also became a party to an agreement between the Abbot of Ramsey and Abbot of Burgh (Peterborough) in regard to the exchange of lands; to bounds and limits of King's-delf; also the right to Ramsey Abbey to dig stone both 'squared and broken' at the quarries of Barnack. For this privilege the Abbey had to give the Monks of Peterborough 'four thousand eels yearly in Lent'

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}} Cathedral historians believe that part of the placing of the church in the location it is in is due to the easy ability to transfer quarried stones by river and then to the existing site allowing it to grow without being relocated.

Then, after completing the Western transept and adding the Great West Front Portico in 1237, the medieval masons switched over to the new Gothic style. Apart from changes to the windows, the insertion of a porch to support the free-standing pillars of the portico and the addition of a "new" building at the east end around the beginning of the 16th century, the structure of the building remains essentially as it was on completion almost 800 years ago. The completed building was consecrated in 1238 by Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, within whose diocese it then fell.

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The trio of arches forming the Great West Front, the defining image of Peterborough Cathedral, is unrivalled in medieval architecture. The line of spires behind it, topping an unprecedented four towers, evolved for more practical reasons. Chief amongst them was the wish to retain the earlier Norman towers, which became obsolete when the Gothic front was added. Instead of being demolished and replaced with new stretches of wall, these old towers were retained and embellished with cornices and other gothic decor, while two new towers were added to create a continuous frontage.

The Norman tower was rebuilt in the Decorated Gothic style in about 1350–1380 (its main beams and roof bosses survive) with two tiers of Romanesque windows combined into a single set of Gothic windows, with the turreted cap and pinnacles removed and replaced by battlements. Between 1496 and 1508, the Presbytery roof was replaced and the "New Building", a rectangular building built around the end of the Norman eastern apse, with Perpendicular fan vaulting (probably designed by John Wastell, the architect of King's College Chapel, Cambridge and the Bell Harry Tower at Canterbury Cathedral), was added.

=Monastic life=

File:Hand carved Choir Stalls, Peterborough Cathedral - geograph.org.uk - 3469533.jpg

As in all Benedictine abbeys, the monks of Peterborough made vows of stability in the abbey until death. The community was governed by the Rule of St Benedict and was focused chiefly on the daily services of the Conventual Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours in the church. Meals and meetings were also important ritual events, with monks eating in silence while listening to readings from spiritual texts. Outside of this schedule they engaged in scholarship, education, pastoral care for the local community, and other kinds of work with daily time set aside for recreation, an opportunity to socialise with other members of the community and with guests. The duty of welcoming guests and pilgrims is a cornerstone of the Benedictine Rule and at Peterborough this was probably the primary focus of activity.{{cite book |author=Saint Benedict |author-link=Benedict of Nursia |translator-first= Timothy |translator-last=Fry |date=1981 |title=Rule of St Benedict |location=Collegeville, Minnesota |publisher=The Liturgical Press |isbn=0814612725}}{{page needed|date=July 2024}}

Pilgrimage to Peterborough was common because of the abbey's many relics. The existing mid-12th-century records of Hugh Candidus, a monk, list the Abbey's reliquaries as including two pieces of swaddling clothes which wrapped the baby Jesus, pieces of Jesus' manger, a part of the five loaves which fed the 5,000, a piece of the raiment of Mary the mother of Jesus, a piece of Aaron's rod, and relics of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – to whom the church is dedicated.{{cite book

| last = Brooke

| first = Rosalind

| author2 = Brooke, Christopher

| title = Popular Religion in the Middle Ages; Western Europe 1000–1300

| chapter-url = https://archive.org/details/popularreligioni0000broo/page/19

| publisher = Thames and Hudson

| isbn = 0-500-25087-1

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/popularreligioni0000broo/page/19 19–21]

| chapter = Chapter 2

| year = 1984

}}

The supposed arm of Oswald of Northumbria disappeared from its chapel, probably during the Reformation, despite a watch-tower having been built for monks to guard its reliquary. Various contact relics of Thomas Becket were brought from Canterbury in a special reliquary by its Prior Benedict (who had witnessed Becket's assassination) when he was "promoted" to Abbot of Peterborough.

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These items underpinned the importance of what is today Peterborough Cathedral. At the zenith of its wealth just before the Reformation it had the sixth-largest monastic income in the country and was one of the most powerful communities in the English Benedictine Congregation. It had a 120 monks, including all the standard roles of a monastic community such as the almoner, the infirmarian, the sacristan and the cellarer, and many more dependant lay brothers and employees.

=Tudor=

In 1541, following Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, the relics were lost. The church survived by being selected as the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Peterborough. The last Abbot of Peterborough, John Chambers, became the first Bishop of Peterborough. Henry's former wife, Catherine of Aragon, had been buried there in 1536. Her tomb was damaged in 1643 and restored in the 19th century.Courtney Herber, 'Katherine of Aragon: Diligent Diplomat and learned Queen', Aidan Norrie, Tudor and Stuart Consorts: Power, Influence, and Dynasty (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), p. 58. To this day, her grave is honoured by visitors who decorate it with flowers and pomegranates (her symbol). The gold letters at the site read "Katharine Queen of England", a title she was denied at the time of her death. A festival to commemorate the Queen is held yearly.

In 1587, the body of Mary, Queen of Scots was initially buried here after her execution at nearby Fotheringhay Castle, but it was later removed to Westminster Abbey on the orders of her son, King James VI of Scotland and James I of England.

=Civil War to present=

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The cathedral was vandalised during the English Civil War in 1643 by Parliamentarian troops. As was common at the time, almost all the stained glass and the medieval choir stalls were destroyed, and the high altar and reredos were demolished, as were the cloisters and Lady Chapel. All the monuments and memorials of the Cathedral were also damaged or destroyed.

Some of the damage was repaired during the 17th and 18th centuries. Extensive restoration work began in 1883, which was initiated after large cracks appeared in the supporting pillars and arches of the main tower. These works included rebuilding of the central tower and its foundations, interior pillars, the choir and re-enforcements of the west front under the supervision of John Loughborough Pearson. New hand-carved choir stalls, cathedra (bishop's throne), choir pulpit and the marble pavement and high altar were added. A stepped level of battlements was removed from the central tower, reducing its height slightly.

The cathedral was hit by a fire on the early evening of 22 November 2001; it is thought to have been started deliberately amongst plastic chairs stored in the North Choir Aisle.{{cite web

| url = http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=418347

| title = CATHEDRAL FIRE: Candle theory on cathedral arson

| access-date = 23 January 2007

| date = 27 November 2006

| format = Newspaper

| work = Peterborough Evening Telegraph

| publisher = Johnston Press Digital Publishing

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185841/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=418347 |archive-date = 30 September 2007}} The fire was spotted by one of the vergers allowing a swift response by emergency services.{{cite web

| url = http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=420733

| title = FIRE: 'I watched the beautiful building go up in smoke'

| access-date = 23 January 2007

| date = 23 November 2006

| work = Peterborough Evening Telegraph

| publisher = Johnston Press Digital Publishing

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190052/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=420733 |archive-date = 30 September 2007}} The timing was particularly unfortunate, for a complete restoration of the painted wooden ceiling was nearing completion.{{cite web

| url = http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=420739

| title = FIRE: Devestating blow to appeal work (sic)

| access-date = 23 January 2007

| date = 23 November 2006

| work = Peterborough Evening Telegraph

| publisher = Johnston Press Digital Publishing

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110432/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=420739 |archive-date = 28 September 2007}} The oily smoke given off by the plastic chairs was particularly damaging, coating much of the building with a sticky black layer.For a comprehensive study on the fire see Peterborough Cathedral 2001-2006: from Devastation to Restoration, Michael Bunker and Paul Binski, Paul Holberton Publishing, London 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-903470-55-8}}. The seat of the fire was close to the organ and the combination of direct damage from the fire, and the water used to extinguish necessitated a full-scale rebuild of the instrument, putting it out of action for several years.

An extensive programme of repairs to the west front began in July 2006 and has cost in excess of half a million pounds. This work is concentrated around the statues located in niches which have been so badly affected by years of pollution and weathering that, in some cases, they have only stayed intact thanks to iron bars inserted through them from the head to the body. The programme of work has sought donors to "adopt a stone".Adopt a Stone a gift to last a lifetime. Peterborough Cathedral 2013 (accessioned 20131229) [http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/adopt-a-stone-a-gift-to-last-a-life-time.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103122800/http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/adopt-a-stone-a-gift-to-last-a-life-time.html|date=3 January 2014}}

The sculptor Alan Durst was responsible for some of the work on the statues on the West Front.Alan Durst, Mention of work on West Front.File:Peterborough Cathedral Youth Choir.jpg

Misericords

Peterborough Cathedral most probably had a set of over thirty misericords dating from the fourteenth century. However, only three now survive.{{cite web|url=http://www.misericords.co.uk/peterborough.html|title=The Misericords and history of Peterborough Cathedral|first=Dominic|last=Strange|website=misericords.co.uk|access-date=13 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151012222835/http://www.misericords.co.uk/peterborough.html|archive-date=12 October 2015|url-status=live}}

Dean and chapter

As of 1 January 2022:[http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/clergy-chapter-staff.aspx Peterborough Cathedral – Clergy, Chapter & Staff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222070408/https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/clergy-chapter-staff.aspx |date=22 December 2021 }} (Accessed 1 January 2022)

Dean – Chris Dalliston (since 20 January 2018 installation){{cite web|url=http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/404.aspx|title=Page not found – Peterborough Cathedral|website=peterborough-cathedral.org.uk|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309212055/http://peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/404.aspx|archive-date=9 March 2019|url-status=live}}
Vice Dean and Canon Pastor – Tim Alban Jones (since 2015; Acting Dean, 2017–2018; Acting Precentor, 2017–2018; Vice Dean since February 2018;{{Cite web|url=http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/newsarticle.aspx/41/vice_dean|title = Vice Dean appointed to Peterborough Cathedral – Peterborough Cathedral}} Bishop's Chaplain {a Diocesan Canon}, 2015–2021; full-time since 1 January 2022){{Cite web|url=https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/newsarticle.aspx/41/canon_tim|title = Canon Tim to take up full-time Cathedral role – Peterborough Cathedral}}
Canon Precentor – Rowan C. Williams (since 16 September 2018 installation){{cite web|url=http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/newsarticle.aspx/41/announce-precentor|title=Rowan Williams to be new Canon Precentor and Bishop's Adviser for Liturgy and Worship – Peterborough Cathedral|website=peterborough-cathedral.org.uk|access-date=16 February 2019}}
Canon Missioner and Bishop's Chaplain (Diocesan Canon) – Steve Benoy (1 May 2022 onwards){{Cite web|url=https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/clergy-chapter-staff.aspx|title = Clergy, Chapter & Staff – Peterborough Cathedral}}
one Diocesan Canon vacancy – previously held by Ian Black, Vicar of Peterborough until his installation as Dean of Newport, 22 May 2021

Burials

File:Tomb of Catherine of Aragon at Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, UK.jpg, the first wife of Henry VIII. The gold lettering is modern.]]

Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba: Kyneburga and Kyneswide were sisters (daughters of King Penda of Mercia). Kyneburga (d. c. 680) founded an Abbey for both monks and nuns in Castor, becoming the first Abbess (Kyneswide succeeded her). Kyneburga was buried in her church, but both of their remains were later translated (before 972) to Peterborough Abbey, now Peterborough Cathedral, along with those of their kinswoman, Tibba. Kyneburga became revered as a saint soon after her death. Her remains were moved once more to Thorney Abbey some time later. All three women are considered Saints.
Ælfric Puttoc (died 1051), medieval Archbishop of York and Bishop of Worcester
Ralph the Timid (died 1057), Earl of Hereford and nephew of Edward the Confessor
Cynesige, Archbishop of York (1051–1060)
Ralph the Staller (c. 1011–1068), (in the Abbey)
Alexander of Holderness, 12th century Abbot of Peterborough
Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536), Queen of England, first wife and queen-consort of Henry VIII
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), following execution at nearby Fotheringhay Castle, was buried in Peterborough between 1587 and 1612, before being disinterred and reinterred in Westminster Abbey
John Chambers, first Bishop of Peterborough (1541–1556)
Robert Scarlett ("Old Scarlett") (1496–1594), sexton of Peterborough Cathedral, who dug graves for both Catherine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots, during many years of service (just inside the Cathedral){{cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/site-unseen-peterborough-cathedral-1588586.html|title=Site unseen: Peterborough Cathedral|date=27 June 1995|website=The Independent|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217033223/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/site-unseen-peterborough-cathedral-1588586.html|archive-date=17 February 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/opinion/shakespeare-hamlet-peterborough-cathedral-and-old-scarlett-1-8054553|title=Shakespeare, Hamlet, Peterborough Cathedral and Old Scarlett|website=peterboroughtoday.co.uk|date=13 July 2017 |access-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217030226/https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/opinion/shakespeare-hamlet-peterborough-cathedral-and-old-scarlett-1-8054553|archive-date=17 February 2019|url-status=live}}
Richard Howland, Bishop of Peterborough (1584–1600)
Francis Dee, Bishop of Peterborough (1634–1638)
John Towers, Bishop of Peterborough (1639–1649)
John Hinchliffe, Bishop of Peterborough (1769–1794)
William Connor Magee, Bishop of Peterborough and Archbishop of York (1821–1891)
Rev Lewis Clayton
Bishop Spencer Madan
Bishop John Hinchliffe
Richard Cumberland (philosopher), Bishop of Peterborough (1691-1718)
Bishop William Connor Magee, Archbishop of York

=Other Memorials=

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George Alcock (1912-2000) astronomer
Edith Cavell, nurse executed by the Germans
William Clavell Ingram, Dean of Peterborough
William Latymer, Dean of Peterborough
Francis Jeune (1806-1868) Bishop of Peterborough
Bishop Spencer Leeson (window)
Arthur Richard Sculthorpe (1903-1974) campaigner for the deaf-blind
Bill Westwood (1925-1999), Bishop of Peterborough
Sgt Thomas Hunter of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales

=Reliquary at Peterborough=

A number of saints were interred in the altar at PeterboroughNicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt, St. Oswald of Worcester (Continuum, 1 January 1996) [https://books.google.com/books?id=4MQOCeT9YkcC&pg=PA255 page 255]

Wilfrid, Tatberht, Sicgrid nicknamed Pius Pater, Botwine reverndus sacerdos, Albert praeclarus minister, Wulfgar and Wildegel modestus.

Gallery

Image:PeterElevDetailDehio.jpg|Partial elevation

Image:Peterborough engraved by Daniel King.jpg|17th-century view

Image:Peterborough Cathedral from the South East - Project Gutenberg eText 13618.jpg|View from the south east, c. 1898, after the 1880s rebuilding

Image:Hedda stone.jpg |The Hedda Stone. An 8th-century Anglo-Saxon carving from the original church.

Image:Hanging crucifix.jpg |The hanging crucifix or rood designed by George Pace in 1975, the figure of Christ is by Frank Roper.

Image:Painted ceiling.jpg|Painted nave ceiling.

Image:RAH frieze, Peterborough Cathedral.jpg|The cathedral as represented on the frieze around the Royal Albert Hall

Image:Thomas Beckett casket.JPG|French enamelled casket made c. 1180 for Benedict to take some relics of Thomas Becket to Peterborough Abbey when he became its Abbot. As Prior of Canterbury Cathedral he had witnessed Becket's assassination in 1170. The casket is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 2018, it was on temporary display in Peterborough Museum to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the completion of the Cathedral in 1118.

Cathedral music

=Organ=

https://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/home/musichome/worship-and-music/organ.aspx

=Organists=

The records of organists at Peterborough Cathedral list Richard Storey as organist in 1540. Notable organists of Peterborough Cathedral have included Stanley Vann, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Armstrong.

Lists of incumbents

References

External links

[http://www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/ Peterborough Cathedral] The cathedral's website
[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13618 The Cathedral Church of Peterborough], by W.D. Sweeting, at Project Gutenberg
[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20967 The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral], by George S. Phillips, at Project Gutenberg
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110428090211/http://www.medievalarchitecturalgeometry.com/ Peterborough Cathedral – The Complete Geometry 1100–1500]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050829224859/http://www.picturesofpeterborough.co.uk/Sections/Cathedral/index.htm Pictures of Peterborough]
[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Peterborough/1.html Bill Thayer's site]
[http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=2079 Peterborough Cathedral on Skyscrapernews.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021003049/http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=2079 |date=21 October 2012 }}
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20061224150434/http://paradoxplace.com/Photo%20Pages/UK/Britain_Centre/Peterborough_Cathedral/Peterborough.htm Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Peterborough Cathedral Pages – Photos]
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Peterborough+Cathedral Flickr images tagged Peterborough Cathedral]
[http://cambridgemilitaryhistory.com/2014/11/30/the-hedda-stone-and-peterborough-abbey/ The Hedda Stone and Peterborough Cathedral at the Cambridge Military History Website]