Places of Worship

St Peter's Church

Prior to 1874 the people of Wimblington attended the 13th - 14th century St Mary's Church Doddington.  Until the middle of the 19th century Doddington Parish included the whole of March together with the villages of Benwick and Wimblington as well as Doddington itself, the rector had with it an estate of 40,000 acres.  By an Act of Parliament in 1847 St Wendreda`s and Benwick were to be separated from Doddington and a new church was built in Benwick in 1850.  A further Act in 1858 provided the framework for a complete dismantling of Doddington Parish with the establishment of separate parishes in Benwick, Doddington, Wimblington and 4 in March.

The church at Wimblington was built at a cost of around £4,000 by Messrs Holland and Hannen of London, to the design of T.H. Wyatt Esq., the architect.  The main body of the walls is brick, faced with Ancaster rubble stone, having bands of a brown or rust-coloured stone from Duston.  The whole of the dressings and tracery are of red-bed Farleigh Devon Stone.  The roof as originally covered with stone slating from Collyweston quarries in Northamptonshire.  The length of the church is 95 feet and the height to the top of the steeple, which surmounts the tower above the chancel, is rather more than 100 feet.

The Act of Consecration and Dedication was conducted by the Lord Bishop of Ely. the Rt Revd.James Russell Woodford on Friday 15 May 1874.  Today the rector is Rev. Glenn Coggins who came to this parish in February 1999.  Under Rev. Coggins guidance The Friends of St Peters has been formed and will take on the work of its formal predecessor The Building Fund Committee.  The Friends group is led by Mr Don Morris as Chairman who extends a warm welcome to any one who wishes to join the friends.  In the immediate future the group is raising funds to arrange for the church organ to be overhauled and modernised at an estimate cost of £4,000.00.