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Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew

Cathedral Church Of St Peter, St Paul And St Andrew

Eastgate

Cambridgeshire

TL 1998 NW 1/1 7.2.52 Rebuilding, after a disastrous fire, commenced in 1118 under Abbot John de Seez.

Architectural Features

Nave circa 1150, west end circa 1177.

West front and main consecration in 1238.

Tower 1315.

Windows mainly renewed in C14

Specially Important:- Nave ceiling of circa 1220, decorated with lozenge shaped panels containing the figures of kings, queens, saints, monsters etc. Retrochoir of 1496-1508 has 4 and 3 light windows with panel tracery separated by buttresses.

Open parapet with seated figures on the tops of the buttresses.

Monuments: Hedda Stone of circa 800 - grey stone with a pitched roof, carved with an inhabited scroll with stiffly carved frontal figures.

Effigies in Alwalton marble of 4 abbots of between 1195 to 1225.

C15 brass lectern.

Glass of 1862 by Morris, Marshall and Faulkner in the south transept on the south wall.