St Peter's Church, Prickwillow, is an inactive

Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

church in the village of

Prickwillow Prickwillow is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with an estimated population of 440. Originally a small Hamlet (place), hamlet on the banks of the River Great Ouse, it is now on the banks of the River Lark since re-organisation of the river ...

Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...

, England.

History

Built in 1866–8 of brick on a foundation of wooden piles by R R Rowe.Pevsner (1970) p. 450 The church has a

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, central bell turret,

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, and south porch.Pugh (1953) p. 82–86 The elaborately carved

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of Italian marble, perhaps from

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, was given to

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by Dean Spencer in 1693. The font cover is hung from the ceiling by the figure of an angel. After the church was declared redundant in 2011, the font was returned to the cathedral. The 1691 bell was also given by Ely Cathedral.St Peter's Churc
Prickwillow online
/ref> The baptism register starts in 1874 and the marriages in 1864. There is no graveyard as nearby Ely is used.

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* 19th-century architecture Churches in Cambridgeshire {{England-Anglican-church-stub