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Haydn Keeton served as organist and choirmaster of Peterborough Cathedral for more than 50 years. Composer, conductor and influential teacher, he trained musicians including Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Armstrong and helped shape Peterborough’s remarkable musical heritage.
Seaxwulf was the founding abbot of Medeshamstede, the seventh-century monastery from which Peterborough Abbey, Peterborough Cathedral and ultimately the city itself developed.
After fire destroyed Peterborough Abbey in 1116, Abbot John de Sais began the monumental Norman church that became Peterborough Cathedral. Discover the man behind one of the city’s greatest buildings.
Mandell Creighton was a pioneering Victorian historian and Bishop of Peterborough from 1891 to 1897. Discover the scholar, churchman and peacemaker who helped shape modern historical study.
The monk who wrote Peterborough Abbey’s history and gave us the phrase “the golden borough”. Hugh Candidus, his chronicle, and how the text survived.
Robert “Old Scarlett” was Peterborough’s long-serving Tudor sexton, remembered for tending the city’s dead and helping to inter Katharine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots. The two royal burials took place 51 years apart, making his life an extraordinary human thread running through one of the most turbulent centuries in English history.