Peakirk, Northamptonshire

Description
Peakirk, a parish, with a village, in Northamptonshire, on the G.N.R., adjacent to the river Welland at the boundary with Lincolnshire, 3. 1/2 miles SE of Market Deeping. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Market Deeping ; money order and telegraph office, Glinton. Acreage, 616; population, 252. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough; net value, £270 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough. The church is an ancient and interesting building of Barnack stone in various styles, consisting of a chancel with N chantry, nave, aisles, S porch, and a bell-gable campanile. A chapel of the 13th century in the Early English style, formerly the cell of St Pega, stands in the village. It was restored and almost rebuilt in 1880, and is now used as a Sunday school.