Medeshamstede was the name of Peterborough in the Anglo-Saxon period. It was the site of a monastery founded around the middle of the 7th century, which was an important feature in the kingdom of Merc
Anglo-Saxon sculpture from Medeshamstede: the so-called "Hedda Stone", kept in Peterborough Cathedral
A 19th-century engraving of the crypt at St Wystan's Church, Repton, begun in the 8th century – described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "one of the most precious survivals of Anglo-Saxon architecture in England".