2-547-268 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, c1870. Peterborough Cathedral was consecrated in 1238. It is dedicated to Saints Peter, Paul and Andrew, statues of whom stand in front of the three gables of the building's west front. Two Tudor Queens of England were buried in the cathedral, Catherine of Aragon and Mary Queen of Scots, although the latter was reburied in Westminster Abbey in 1612. The interior of the cathedral was vandalised by Cromwell's troops in 1643 during the English Civil War.