Peterborough

We can sail rapidly through the last five city churches, all, with the exception of St Peter & All Souls [which is RC and was heaving with people at prayer hence no interiors] and St Barnabas along with Westgate which are redundant, LNK and mostly dull.

ALL SAINTS, Park Road. 1894 by Temple Moore, a sensitive design and quite original. In the Dec style. The tower stands beyond the S chancel aisle at its E end. The s aisle is uncommonly wide, and there is no N aisle.

ALL SOULS (R. C.), Fitzwilliam Street. 1896 by Leonard Stokes. Of small squared rubble with only a small polygonal bellcote. This is at the W end, where the Priest’s House is attached. Interior with aisle of no more than passage width. Tall aisle windows. The arcade arches are so tall as to embrace them.

ST BARNABAS, Taverners Road. 1900 by W.Bryer (GR). Brick; no tower. No interest inside.

ST MARK, Lincoln Road. 1856 by E. Ellis. Quite an original and picturesque design. Early Dec style with a NE tower and spire. Nave with stone dormers with fanciful circular windows. Also a half-timbered dormer.

ST MARY, Boongate. 1859 by Ewan Christian. E.E., rock-faced, with apse. Steeple of 1883 with a saddleback roof. Demolished and rebuilt in the late 80s/early 90s.

ST PAUL, Walpole Street. 1868 by James Teale (‘bullied by Lord Grimthorpe’, GR). In the E.E. style, with lancet and Geometrical windows. Big central tower open to the inside. Apse. Quite an impressive, though a coarse design. - STAINED GLASS. Several windows by Cakebread.

WESTGATE, redundant, is now used as a well-being centre while the congregation have moved round the corner in to a new build.  It's a large yellow brick Victorian build originally constructed in 1859 and rebuilt in 1891 following a fire.

All Saints

St Peter & All Souls

St Barnabas

St Mark

St Paul

Westgate

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