Description

COLEMORE & PRIORS DEAN COLEMORE SU 73 SW 4/1 Church of St Peter ad Vincula (formerly listed as 'Church of 16.3.54 St Peter') GV II* Parish church. c11, C12, C17, restorations of 1874 and 1975. Flint and rubble stone walls, almost entirely covered in cement render, stone buttresses (1612 and 1874): windows mainly Victorian cusped lancets, but a small Norman window in the Transept, a small late C12 lancet and a larger C13 lancet, with west window being coupled lancets beneath a quatrefoil, triple lancets at the east end. Plain roof, hipped above the transept, with a higher ridge above the end, ending with a bell turret (1866) with a broach spire. Single cell church, with a north transept (and Norman arch), south porch (1874), the east end having been refaced in 1874, and the west end raised to form a belfry in 1612 (rebuilt 1866). Plain interior: piscinas to chapel and transept, which has a small slype, remains of a rood stair, easter sepulchre (restored), C15 wood screen, C17 nave roof, anda Purbeck C12 font (a panelled square on drum and corner columns). There are wall monuments of 1692, 1748 and 1814, floor slabs, a floor brass of 1718, and 2 old bells (of 1380 and 1627) hung in the nave.

Listing NGR: SU7066030801

External Links

• Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore at Wikipedia
• Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore official website
• Wikidata Q5117706

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