Church Of St Peter In Ely

The Church of St Peter-in-Ely is a Grade II listed church built in 1890 by architect James Piers St Aubyn. It features a brick façade with coursed ashlar and machine tile roofs. The church comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, and south transept, all designed in the Decorated style.

The exterior showcases a west front with a four-light window featuring intersecting tracery, with a single lancet window above. At the south-west corner, there is a polygonal bell turret topped with a stone spirelet and louvred bell-openings. The gabled south porch has a moulded arched entrance. The nave has three three-light Decorated windows on the south side and four on the north, separated by stepped buttresses. The south transept includes triple lancets in the south wall and a roundel above. The chancel has decorative fenestration with one two-light window on both the north and south sides, and a five-light window on the east, complemented by setback chancel buttresses.

Inside, the church features a moulded chancel arch and south transept arch. The nave roof consists of eight bays with arched braces to collars that alternate on wall posts and corbels, supported by Y-braces from collars to principals. It has two tiers of butt purlins and a ridge piece, along with two tiers of arched windbracing. The chancel roof is a more elaborate four-bay version of the same design.

Notable fittings include a double-coved rood screen erected in 1893 by Sir Ninian Comper, which has three by three bays on either side of a central opening, with the outer bays boarded and decorated with stencilled emblems. The open bays each feature three-light open Decorated tracery. The central entrance has a seven-cusped arch, with tierceron ribbed coving rising to a cornice adorned with fleurons on the east side and a running foliage trail on the west side. The panelled parapet is detailed with cusped ogee tracery heads. The rood depicts Christ on the Cross flanked by St Mary and St John, with angels standing on either side. The church also contains a plain three-sided pulpit and an octagonal font on a drum stem with satellite columns and Decorated tracery on the bowl panels. The east window features stained glass from 1892 by Kempe & Co., and there is an organ manual in the south transept installed in 1905 by Hills of Norwich. The church is recognized as a well-preserved example of 1890s ecclesiastical architecture, complete with remarkable fittings.