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The Grade I Listed Church of St John the Baptist in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
The original parish church, dating from the 11th century, was some distance to the east of the current location, on the site now occupied by Bishop Creighton Academy. When the centre of Peterborough moved west, the church was relocated stone by stone. Construction of the current church began in 1402 and it was dedicated to St John the Baptist in 1407.
Restoration in 1819 'brutally swept away' old features and added clerestory and galleries. In 1882 John Loughborough Pearson provided new roofs, new clerestory, aisle parapets, and tracery. The galleries were removed, the east window unblocked and raised, floors lowered, and a new pulpit added. This restoration work was for Revd Henry Syers and designed in 1880.
The church was refurnished in High Anglican manner in 1938 and incorporated a new rood and elaborately painted and gilded timber reredos with carved figures under heavily traceried canopies. The figures were carved by Mahomet Thomas Phillips while working at Bowman & Sons of Stamford.
In 1968 a new stained-glass window, designed by Brian Thomas, was installed. It depicts notable people connected to Peterborough: Symon Gunton, vicar of the parish during the plague, between 1665 and 1667, Nurse Edith Cavell, Captain Thomas Mellows who died in 1944, fighting in the French Resistance, and William Law.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist_Church,_Peterbo...
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101331524-parish-church-of-s...
46737
The Grade I Listed Church of St John the Baptist in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
The original parish church, dating from the 11th century, was some distance to the east of the current location, on the site now occupied by Bishop Creighton Academy. When the centre of Peterborough moved west, the church was relocated stone by stone. Construction of the current church began in 1402 and it was dedicated to St John the Baptist in 1407.
Restoration in 1819 'brutally swept away' old features and added clerestory and galleries. In 1882 John Loughborough Pearson provided new roofs, new clerestory, aisle parapets, and tracery. The galleries were removed, the east window unblocked and raised, floors lowered, and a new pulpit added. This restoration work was for Revd Henry Syers and designed in 1880.
The church was refurnished in High Anglican manner in 1938 and incorporated a new rood and elaborately painted and gilded timber reredos with carved figures under heavily traceried canopies. The figures were carved by Mahomet Thomas Phillips while working at Bowman & Sons of Stamford.
In 1968 a new stained-glass window, designed by Brian Thomas, was installed. It depicts notable people connected to Peterborough: Symon Gunton, vicar of the parish during the plague, between 1665 and 1667, Nurse Edith Cavell, Captain Thomas Mellows who died in 1944, fighting in the French Resistance, and William Law.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist_Church,_Peterbo...
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101331524-parish-church-of-s...