St Peter's Church,Cambridge; North Wall

The northern wall of the church showcases an excellent example of Medieval recycling of Roman building materials, with a series of Roman bricks being incorporated into the lower course of the wall. These bricks likely came from the former Roman wall of Cambridge, a section of which ran through where the adjacent Kettles Yard art gallery now sits. The rest of the building material is made up of flint rubble and Barnack stone, being of Medieval and Georgian origin. St Peter's Church is thought to have been built in the 12th-century, possibly with Anglo-Saxon origins. Most of the church seen today is Georgian and was heavily reconstructed in 1781 when the Norman nave and chancel were demolished and rebuilt following a long period of ruin. The Georgian reconstruction reused much of the original material, including Roman tiles and bricks robbed from the ruins of Roman Cambridge, including the once-adjacent 4th-century town wall. St Peter's Church is open daily from 10am-4pm.