Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Visited April 2018
Some of the earliest buildings on this site were part of monastery, founded in 655AD (although there were Romans here earlier). The present building was begun in 1118, and is really quite splendid.
There are a number of splendid memorials around the interior of the Cathedral. Perhaps most important of all are the grave of Katherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII), and the former burial place of Mary Queen of Scots, both of which are marked in a similar (modern) manner.
There is also a graveyard surrounding the cathedral - most of the remaining gravestones are Victorian, but a few earlier ones can be found, complete with memento mori, and at a back corner of the cathedral exterior are the remains of early stone coffins, presumably the resting places of the long-forgotten monks.
Some of the earliest buildings on this site were part of monastery, founded in 655AD (although there were Romans here earlier). The present building was begun in 1118, and is really quite splendid.
There are a number of splendid memorials around the interior of the Cathedral. Perhaps most important of all are the grave of Katherine of Aragon (first wife of Henry VIII), and the former burial place of Mary Queen of Scots, both of which are marked in a similar (modern) manner.
There is also a graveyard surrounding the cathedral - most of the remaining gravestones are Victorian, but a few earlier ones can be found, complete with memento mori, and at a back corner of the cathedral exterior are the remains of early stone coffins, presumably the resting places of the long-forgotten monks.
