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66 unusual facts about St Peter


Albert Joseph Moore

Albert Moore was educated at Archbishop Holgate's School, and also at St. Peter's School at York, receiving at the same time instruction in drawing and painting from his father.

Beaumont House

Beaumont House was constructed for Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide and founder of St Peter's Cathedral.

Bishop Short later founded St Peter's Cathedral, an Anglican church, in 1869.

Camille Natta

She graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford with an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Clifton, York

St. Peter's School, an independent, co-educational secondary school was founded in the 7th century, and is the third oldest school in the world.

Decimus Burton

Burton's buildings include the North Euston Hotel, Pharos Lighthouse and Beach Lighthouse, Queen's Terrace, St Peter's Church, the Town Hall and his own house on Dock Street (where he lived until 1844).

Deene Park

St Peter's Church, Deene, in the grounds, has the funeral monuments of the Brudenells.

Ediriweera Sarachchandra

Sarachchandra started his career as a teacher at St. Peter's College in Colombo 4.

Frank Nobilo

He was educated at St Peter's College in Auckland where he was persuaded to play golf by schoolmates (Chris Treen and Mark Lewis).

Howard Florey

He was educated at Kyre College Preparatory School (Now Scotch College) and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he was a brilliant academic and junior sportsman.

P. R. Anthonis

Anthonis was educated at Milagiriya Singhalese School, St. Joseph’s College, South (now St Peter's College, Colombo) and went on to study medicine at Ceylon Medical College graduating in 1936 winning Loos Gold Medal for Pathology, the Matthew Gold Medal for Forensic Medicine, the Rockwood Gold Medal for Surgery and the Government Diploma Medal after a laps of 11 years.

Robin Warren

Warren received his M.B.B.S. degree from the University of Adelaide, having completed his high school education at St Peter's College, Adelaide.

Sam Clark

Clark is a graduate of St Peter's College, Adelaide, and was a keen participant in several high school theatre productions, including a main role in West Side Story.

Sandiacre

John Barret, the Presbyterian minister, moved to Sandiacre in 1665 after losing the living of St Peter's Church, Nottingham in the Great Ejection.

St Margaret's Church, West Hoathly

An ancient Sussex custom, also encountered at a few other churches nearby (such as those at Lindfield and Ardingly), applied for many years at West Hoathly: every landowner in the parish was responsible for the upkeep of a specific section of the churchyard wall.

St Peter-in-the-East

St Peter-in-the-East is believed to be named after the 5th-century church of S. Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, Italy.

St Peter-in-the-East is a 12th-century church on Queen's Lane, north of the High Street in central Oxford, England.

St Peter, Vere Street

Its interior appears in plate 2 of Hogarth's print series Industry and Idleness.

St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg

Mozart's Great Mass in C minor was premiered in the church, probably on 26 October 1783, with his wife Constanze singing first soprano.

St Peter's and St Paul's Church, East Sutton

St Peter's and St Paul's Church is a parish church in Church Lane, East Sutton, Kent dedicated to saints Peter and Paul.

St Peter's Cathedral Armidale

St Peters's Cathedral, Armidale is the cathedral of the Diocese of Armidale in New South Wales, Australia.

St Peter's Cathedral, Armidale

The cathedral building was designed by the Canadian architect John Horbury Hunt who also designed Booloominbah and Trevenna at the University of New England and cathedrals in the adjoining dioceses of Newcastle and Grafton.

St Peter's Church of England Primary School

Salford City Radio Presenter Lewis Ryan who attended until 2002, Who also went on to attend Moorside High School.

St Peter's Church, Cambridge

It has a 13th-century south doorway, and a 12th-century font, decorated with mermen at the angles.

St Peter's Church, Chelmarsh

St Peter's Church, Chelmarsh, is located in the village of Chelmarsh, Shropshire, England.

St Peter's Church, Derby

The St Peters Quarter exists to promote and enhance the area as has the nearby Cathedral Quarter, Derby, since its formation earlier.

St Peter's Church, Eaton Square

St. Peter's was designed in a classical style by the architect Henry Hakewill, and featured a six-columned Ionic portico and a clock tower.

St Peter's Church, Elford

High up in the Chantry Chapel can be seen the shields of the Lords of the Manor from Saxon times beginning with Wulfric, Earl of Mercia and founder of Burton Abbey.

The church is situated on the eastern edge of the village on the north bank of the River Tame.

The window at the west end of the south aisle near the entrance is of Flemish glass, said to originate from the Herkenrode Abbey near Liège, like the glass in the Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral.

St Peter's Church, Hammersmith

St Peter's Church is linked to St Bartholomew’s Cathedral Church, Messumba, Mozambique.

St Peter's Church, Hargrave

The church was built in 1627 as a combined chapel and school by Thomas Moulson, a former native of the village.

St Peter's Church, Le Crotoy

The old church, like the one in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, had two parallel aisles and was surrounded by the cemetery.

St Peter's Church, Letwell

The Church of St Peter is found at the west end of the village of Letwell, near Rotherham, in South Yorkshire.

The harmonium, dating from 19th century, was constructed by the Estey Organ Company of Brattleboro, Vermont.

St Peter's Church, Lowick

On the north wall is the tomb of Sir John Germain, 1st Baronet who died in 1718, set as a semi-reclining marble figure in armour on a chest tomb.

A plain tablet in the north chapel remembers William, infant son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough who died in 1625.

St Peter's Church, Martindale

However, the most noteworthy window is situated to the right of the nave and is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, and is in memory of Lieutenant Commander W.H. Parkin and the officers and men of HMS Glorious which was sunk by German battleships in the North Sea in June 1940.The window shows an airman’s view of the aircraft carrier at full steam.

St Peter's Church, Northampton

The present church was probably built between 1130 and 1140 by Simon de Senlis II.

St Peter's Church, Petersfield

A chapel of ease was originally built, and called 'St. Peter's in-the-veld' (veld - meaning an open and clear place), within the manor of Mapledurham (later Buriton).

St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton

It was the parish church of Preston until 1908, when the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church gained this status.

St Peter's Church, Saltfleetby

The older part of the tower is constructed in limestone ashlar, with greenstone rubble used in the 20th-century re-building; it also contains some red brick.

St Peter's Church, Scorton

The stained glass in the east window dates from about 1879, and is by Burlison and Grylls.

St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

The original church with that dedication was the town's first permanent Roman Catholic place of worship; founded in 1875, it was paid for by Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk, a member of the most important Dukedom in England.

The funds to build the church came from Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk.

St Peter's Church, Sudbury

In the Lady Chapel the font is carved with a depiction of the Nativity, and the reredos is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.

St Peter's Church, Walpole St Peter

St Peter's was used as the parish church of the fictional village of Fenchurch St Paul in the 1973 television dramatisation of Dorothy L Sayer's novel The Nine Tailors, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.

St Peter's College, Colombo

Marcelline Jayakody OMI - Well-known Sri Lankan Catholic priest, musician, lyricist, author, journalist and patriot.

Peter's College (Sinhala: සාන්ත පීතර විදුහල, Tamil: செயிண்ட் பீட்டர் கல்லூரி) is a boys-only primary to secondary (inclusive) school in the Bambalapitiya zone of Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 1922.

New Chapel at St. Peter's College Branch, Udugampola was blessed and dedicated by Archbishop Gomis on 21 October on the occasion of the 4th Anniversary of the Branch School.

Peter’s College, was built on neglected cinnamon land bordering the Galle Road and alongside the Wellawatte Canal, starting on 7 July 1921.

The branch, St. Peter’s College, Gampaha, was inaugurated by Archbishop Oswald Gomis on 2 February 1993, as the first Branch school in Sri Lanka after the schools take over act No.8, passed in 1961.

M.J. Le Goc, Rector of St Joseph's College, Colombo, wanted to start a college in the southern suburbs of Colombo, and acquired a block of cinnamon land in Bambalapitiya.

St Peter's College, Gampaha

Peter's College, Gampaha (Sinhala: සාන්ත පීතර විදුහල, Tamil: செயிண்ட் பீட்டர் கல்லூரி) is a boys-only primary to secondary (inclusive) branch school of St Peter's College, Colombo in the Udugampola zone of Gampaha, Sri Lanka, founded in 1993.

Joe Wickramasinghe, suggested opening a branch school of St. Peter’s College at Gampaha.

St Peter's College, Palmerston North

Ingrid Park - Actress, played the character MacKenzie Choat on Shortland Street.

St Peter's High School, Gloucester

In 2007, the school's Under-18 Rugby Union team were winners of the Daily Mail Cup, becoming the second comprehensive school victors of the prize, after Campion.

St Peter's Metro station

In order that a four-car DMU could fit the platform, a temporary platform extension was constructed at the northern end.

St Peter's Square, London

Kim Medcalf (born 1973) British actress (formerly Sam Mitchell in EastEnders)

St Peter's, Eastern Hill

There is a certain bias in the choir's repertoire towards music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin des Prez, Firmin Lebel, Palestrina, Eccard, Byrd, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Bach, ...).

Te Atatu South

Other convenient State secondary schools are Henderson High School, Liston College, St Dominic's College and some commute to St Peter's College.

Tiverton, Devon

Many wealthy wool merchants added to the town's heritage: for example, John Greenway (1460–1529) added a chapel to St Peter's parish church in 1517, and a small chapel and almshouses in Gold Street which still stand; the Almshouse Trust still houses people today.

Upper Hermitage, South Australia

Upper Hermitage's history revolves around agriculture and viticulture, as well as sand and freestone quarries, whose yields were used since early settlement days to build many South Australian public buildings, including the Adelaide Town Hall, General Post Office, Supreme Court and St Peter's Cathedral.

Waima

Catholic students usually commute by bus, or train from Glen Eden or New Lynn to Marist College (girls) or St Peter's College (boys).

Walter Griffiths

Born in Kent Town, South Australia, the son of Frederick Griffiths, a wealthy ironmonger, and his wife Helen, née Giles, Griffiths attended St Aloysius College and Saint Peter's College in Adelaide.

William Lawrence Bragg

After beginning his studies at St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1904 he went to the University of Adelaide at age 14 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908.


Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany

When the Roman court persisted in this "interference", Adalbert marched on the eternal city, forced John VIII to take refuge in the St Peter's Basilica, and forced the Roman citizens to swear fealty to Carloman.

Adelaide University Football Club

Details of games with PAC and SPSC have been found in the Prince Alfred College Chronicle and the St Peter's College School Magazine, and are certain to be contained in other school magazines.

All Saints' Church, Monkwearmouth

A parish of All Saints was formed in 1844 when it became clear that there was no longer enough room in the only parish church for Monkwearmouth (St Peter's), and a church for the new parish was completed and consecrated in 1849.

Barlynch Priory

Some of the stained glass from a Jesse window at the Priory is now in the St Peter's Church in Huish Champflower.

Barney Clarke

Clarke was born in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College, where he was a foundation pupil and where the sport of boxing was encouraged by the Christian Brothers so that the boys could defend themselves against bullying.

Boston Road Railway Station

Boston Road Railway Station was on the Western Line of the Auckland Suburban Railway Network, near St Peter's College and Auckland Grammar School.

Caversham Court

The medieval community of Caversham was clustered on the north side of Caversham Bridge to the east of St Peter's Church, which was built in the 12th century.

Core Knowledge

Writers include former top students from Annesley College, Eynesbury Senior College, Glenunga International High School, Marryatville High School, Norwood Morialta High School, Prince Alfred College, Pembroke School, Rostrevor College, Sacred Heart College Senior, St Michael's College, St Peter's College, Westminster School and Wilderness School.

Eucharistic Congress

The Congress ended with a celebration of the Mass in the Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, with a live link up between that Mass, and a simultaneous Mass celebrated in St Peter's Basilica in Rome in the presence of Pope John Paul II.

First Tower United F.C.

The clubs home is in the grounds of La Hague Manor, which is also the site of St George's Preparatory School, in the parish of St Peter.

Grange Fell Church, Grange-Over-Sands

Its benefice is united with those of St Mary, Allithwiate, St Mary and St Michael, Cartmel, St Peter, Field Broughton, St John the Baptist, Flookburgh, St Paul, Grange-over-Sands, and St Paul, Lindale, to form the benefice of Cartmel Peninsula.

King William Street, Adelaide

The northern section called King William Road (connecting the Adelaide city centre with North Adelaide) passes several of Adelaide's landmarks, including Government House, Elder Park, the Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide Oval and St Peter's Cathedral.

Melozzo da Forlì

The figure of Christ is now in the Quirinal Palace; while some of the other portions, which influenced Raphael, are in the sacristy of St Peter's.

Preston Manor, Brighton

In October 1867, she married Vere Fane Benett-Stanford (1840-1894) of Pythouse near Tisbury, Wiltshire in a ceremony at St Peter's Church, after which a wedding breakfast for forty guests was held at Preston Manor.

Robert Corbet Singleton

With William Sewell, who had supported him at St Columba’s, he was to become co-founder of St Peter’s College, Radley, being appointed the first Warden of Radley on 9 June 1847.

Scotus College

In February 1980, the Archdiocese of Glasgow transferred its seminary from St Peter's Seminary, Cardross, because of maintenance difficulties, to the site of a former convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Newlands, Glasgow.

St Philip and St James Church, Leckhampton

It now forms part of the South Cheltenham Group of churches centred on St Peter's.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

Stubbekøbing Church

There are references to the altars of Our Lady, St Peter (1464) and St Olaf (1535), and also to St Gertrude's chapel (1497) although it is uncertain whether it was in the church itself.

Thomas Boutflower Bennett

Thomas Boutflower Bennett (1808- 14 September 1894) was an early colonist of South Australia, remembered as a schoolmaster at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution and at Saint Peter's College.

Thomas Moulson

Sir Thomas was a native of Hargrave, Cheshire, and in 1627 built a combined chapel and school in the village which is now St Peter's Church, Hargrave.

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

The Institute occupied a building on Cooper Street (near the present St Peter's Square) and later moved to its present site on David Street (later renamed Princess Street).

University of Sunderland

St Peter's opened during the 1990s on the north bank of the River Wear, the site of St. Peter's Church and monastery built by Benedict Biscop in 674AD.

William James Gilbert Allen

He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of Alfred B. Allen and Delores M. Holmes, and was educated there, at St. Peter's College and at the University of Saskatchewan.