Myself and a group for friends take a bus ride too Wisbech.
We have a look in the shops and even take an extensive look inside St Peter’s church.
History of the church
The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul or St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Ely. The church was founded in the 12th century.
In his Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches, Sir 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 Joseph Nollekens, and the reredos of 1885 which was designed by William Bassett-Smith and executed by Salviati.
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.
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 modern flèche.
The tower contains a peal of ten bells. An existing peal of eight bells in the key of F were recast by William Dobson of Downham Market in 1823, when the incumbent the Rev. Abraham Jobson gave two additional bells at his expense. The old bells had bore dates of 1566, 1608 and another 1640. The new bells, in the key of E flat, are claimed to be the fourth oldest 'peal of ten bells'. A 'Workmens' bell was rung at 5:45 am and a Curfew bell at 8:45 pm until well into the 20th century. The bells were restored and rehung in 1994.
When the church graveyard was full, Tillery Field was purchased in 1828 for use as a cemetery. Many of the victims of the 1832 cholera epidemic are buried here. It is now Tillery Park owned by the C of E and maintained by Fenland District Council.
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