Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures The defensive ditch was redug

The defensive ditch was redug in the Late Saxon period and the Roman wall repaired

Sue Hirst and Christopher Scull

notably the 17th-century diarists Samuel Pepys (of the Navy Board) and John Evelyn (whose home was Sayes Court)

edited by Jackie Hall and Susan M Wright

This publication was funded by Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

Conservation and Discovery: Peterborough cathedral Nave Ceiling and related Structures The defensive ditch was redug2015 edited by Jackie Hall and Susan M Wright A major conservation programme took place between 1998 and 2003 on one of Europes greatest medieval painted wooden ceilings. Investigation and analysis were an integral part of this conservation work in the former Benedictine abbey church of Peterborough. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made during that time, as well as the conservation programme itself, are documented and fully illustrated here.