St Mary's, Haddon

Haddon is a village that you don't really visit unless you have a reason to go there. Set just off the busy A1 a few miles from Peterborough, this is a very small farming village, if indeed it is big enough to be called a village. Perhaps "hamlet" would be a better description. There was a church mentioned at Haddon in the Domesday Survey of 1086. It is thought that the Eastern wall of the Nave belongs to that period. The church inside is bright and welcoming, especially when sunlight streams in through the south windows. The chancel arch is a very fine piece of work, with some nice carvings on the capitals. Arcades on the North and South sides were added in the early 13th Century. Over the chancel there are the fragments of a 15th Century wall painting that shows a figure seated on a rainbow.

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