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Church of St Peter Ad Vincula

A Grade I Listed Building in Combe Martin, Devon

  • Combe Martin St Peter Ad Vincular 2013

  • St Peter ad Vincula: church noted for its early c15 fourstage tower, 99ft high; image niches, battlements & crocketed pinnacles

  • St Peter ad Vincula: view from the south-east showing Early English chancel (c13) with lancet windows

  • St Peter ad Vincula: c15 nave with wagon roof, restored c.1858

  • St Peter ad Vincula: Perpendicular rood screen with dado of painted figures; coving & cornice is of 1911

  • St Peter ad Vincula: saints from the rood screen dado showing ones on the door leading to the chancel

  • St Peter ad Vincula: saints from the rood screen dado showing ones on the door leading to the north-east chapel

  • St Peter ad Vincula: helper saints from the rood screen dado including St Apollonia (second from left)

  • St Peter ad Vincula: unusual carving in north-east chapel

  • St Peter ad Vincula: Elizabethan oak 'Poor Man's Chest' with three keyholes

  • St Peter ad Vincula: memorial to William Hancock d.1587; quartered arms of Hancock (gules on a chief argent three cocks of the field)

  • St Peter ad Vincula: memorial to Judith (Newman), d.1634, wife of William Hancock & later Thomas Ivatt; frontal demi-figure between columns

  • St Peter ad Vincula: memorial to Judith (Newman), d.1634, wife of William Hancock & later Thomas Ivatt

  • St Peter ad Vincula: putti & arms from the memorial to Judith (nee Newman), d.1634

  • St Peter ad Vincula: inscription from the memorial to Judith (nee Newman), d.1634

  • St Peter ad Vincula: memorial to George Ley, d.1716; rectangular plaque with pilasters and cherub's head above skull

  • Church of St Peter Ad Vincula, Combe Martin, Devon

  • Sundial above south door to St Peter Ad Vincula, Combe Martin, Devon

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Entry Name: Church of St Peter Ad Vincula

Listing Date: 25 February 1965

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1106799

English Heritage Legacy ID: 97037

ID on this website: 101106799

Location: Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Combe Martin, North Devon, EX34

County: Devon

District: North Devon

Civil Parish: Combe Martin

Built-Up Area: Combe Martin

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Combe Martin St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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