The surviving walls in Peterborough Cathedral’s precincts belonged to the abbey infirmary, rebuilt between 1250 and 1262 by Abbot John de Caux. Here, sick and infirm monks received care in a great hall with seven bays and two aisles. After the Dissolution, the aisles were incorporated into houses.
Here lies an extraordinary warp and weft of time and place, of home and circumstance, of the past, the present and the future all rolled into one.
Amongst the weathered stone, the remnants of one generation have been folded into the making of another, giving the bones of an ancient building new life.
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