Peterborough Cathedral is the city's great set-piece and one of the finest Norman buildings in England. The west front, with its three enormous Gothic arches, is unforgettable: broad, pale, and theatrical, it turns the approach across the precinct into a proper reveal.
Inside, the nave has the heavy rhythm of Romanesque architecture, while the painted wooden ceiling adds colour and delicacy overhead. The building began as a monastery, survived the Reformation in altered form, and still feels like a place with more history than the modern city around it lets on.