Peterborough, Cambridgshire - 13th ceiling of Nave of Church - postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Portion of 13th Century Wooden Ceiling of the Nave of Peterborough Cathedral - real photo
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Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew – also known as Saint Peter's Cathedral^[1] in the United Kingdom – is the seat of the Bishop of Peterborough, dedicated to Saint Peter, Saint Paul and Saint Andrew, whose statues look down from the three high gables of the famous West Front. Founded in the Anglo-Saxon period, the architecture is mainly Norman, following a rebuilding in the 12th century. With Durham and Ely Cathedrals, it is one of the most important 12th-century buildings in England to have remained largely intact, despite extensions and restoration.

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, while the effect of the West Front upon entering the Cathedral Close is overwhelming

The original church, known simply 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.^[2] The monastic settlement with which the church was associated lasted at least until 870, when it was supposedly destroyed by Vikings.

In the mid 10th century monastic revival (in 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.^[3] It was dedicated to St Peter, and came to be 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.^[2][4]

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]} 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"".^[5]

type=real photographic (rp)

city/ region=peterborough

period=post-war (1945 - present)

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size=continental/ modern (150x100mm)