Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
| Church of St Peter and St Paul | |
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  Church of St Peter and St Paul Location in Cambridgeshire | |
| 52°39′50″N 0°09′43″E / 52.6640°N 0.1619°ECoordinates: 52°39′50″N 0°09′43″E / 52.6640°N 0.1619°E | |
| Location | Wisbech, Cambridgeshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Churchmanship | Anglo-Catholic |
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| History | |
| Founded | 1187 |
| Dedication | Saint Peter, Saint Paul |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Specifications | |
| Bells | 10 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Wisbech |
| Deanery | Wisbech-Lynn-Marshland |
| Archdeaconry | Huntingdon and Wisbech |
| Diocese | Ely |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Priest(s) | Fr. Paul John Francis West |
| Honorary priest(s) | Fr. David Addington |
The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul or St Peter's Church, Wisbech, is in an Anglican church in the market town of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Ely. The church was founded in the 12th century.[1]
On 17 July 1951 the church became the first Grade I listed building in Wisbech.[2]
John Betjeman described St Peter and St Paul's church as "a typical town church with four-aisled nave, rather dark and dusty". Features of interest include the free standing bell tower, a wall monument by Nollekens and the reredos of 1885 which was designed by Basset-Smith and executed by Salviati.[3]
The Perpendicular tower was built detached from the rest of the church due to the instability of the soil here; so a collapse of the tower would not be disastrous for the rest of the church. An earlier tower of which the base remains had fallen onto the nave of an earlier church building. The tower is much more ornate in its higher stages and many of its patrons are commemorated in stone carvings. It is surmounted by a flèche. The interior is the work of many periods of building; the Norman nave is to the north of a second nave and each have both aisles and chancels. The Norman chancel was demolished and replaced by a larger one which is Decorated in style and has a fine east window.[4]
References
- ↑ "The Norman Church". Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL - 1229992 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
- ↑ Bedtjeman, J., ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 142
- ↑ Simon Jenkins (1999) England's Thousand Best Churches. Allen Lane, ISBN 0-7139-9281-6; pp. 53-54