Stop 3 of 7 · By bike

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Priestgate

You found page 3 of the chronicle. It reads: TREASURE

The keepers of the city's memory live in a grand house on Priestgate. It was built in 1816 for Thomas Alderson Cooke, a magistrate, over cellars from a sixteenth-century house. In 1931 Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart, chairman of the London Brick Company, gave it to be the city's museum, and the art gallery was added in 1939.

After Cooke died, Earl Fitzwilliam bought the house and let it be used as a public dispensary and infirmary, the city's first hospital, from 1857 until the War Memorial Hospital opened in 1928.

Blue plaque: beside the main entrance on Priestgate.

Source: Peterborough Civic Society, blue plaque 31 (Peterborough Museum).

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The clue to the next page

Now find the church the townsfolk moved. They asked a bishop's leave, pulled the old one down, and built again in the middle of their own market place.

Reveal answer

St John the Baptist Church

Cathedral Square

How to get there · about 2 min by bike

Cathedral Square is for pedestrians. Wheel your bike from Priestgate into the square.

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