St Peter, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire

I Location

Site Location: Wilburton
National Grid Reference: TL 480 750
County: traditional: Cambridgeshire
now: Cambridgeshire
Diocese: medieval: not confirmed
now: Ely
Dedication: medieval: not confirmed
now (or name of monument): St Peter
Type of building/monument: Parish church

II General Description

: Exterior, view from SE.

: Exterior, view from E.

: Annotated sketch plan.

St Peter's has a big, aisleless 15thc. nave with Perpendicular windows under wall arches, a 15thc. chancel with a similar internal elevation and a N vestry, a 13thc. W tower with a 15thc. tower arch and a two-storey 15thc. S porch. The chancel arch is 13thc. The church was restored in 1851, and N transept and attached organ chamber were added in 1868. Construction is of rubble with some render on the tower, which is fitted with a lead spike. The only features recorded here are two stones in the S porch, one loose, the other mortared in place. Both are treated as loose stones below.

VI Loose Sculpture

(i) Cushion capital with multi-reeded bell and plain necking.

: S porch, reset stones, cushion capital on shaft.

: S porch, reset stones, cushion capital.

This is set into the NE angle inside the S porch, standing on a short shaft on a hollow-chamfered base.

Dimensions

h. of capital (incl. necking)	0.14 m
w. of W face	0.14 m
depth of block (E-W)	0.18 m

(ii) Loose stone in S porch.

: S porch, loose stone, volute capital.

Incorporating a bell capital with plain necking and abacus broken at front and R. Alongside the capital, carved from the same block, is a projecting double volute. Probably 13thc.

Dimensions

h. of block	0.17 m
w. of block at top	0.27 m
depth (front - back)	0.25 m

VII History

In 1086 the Abbot of Ely held the manor of 5 hides.

VIII Comments/Opinions

IX Bibliography

N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Cambridgeshire, Harmondsworth 1954 (2nd ed. 1970), 485-86.