Church Of St Peter Ad Vincula

TIBBERTON CP CHURCH LANE (west side) SO 95 NW 6/205 Church of St Peter Ad Vincula GV II Parish church. Rebuilt in 1868 by Hopkins on site of former church. Brick faced externally with coursed lias limestone rubble, sandstone ashlar dressings, plain tiled roof and timber bell-turret. Four-bay nave with bell- turret and south porch, two-bay chancel. Early English style. Nave has chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses at west end and also buttresses at eastern end of side elevations; west end has four large lancets and a rose window in the apex; side elevations have paired cusped lancets, three pairs in the north and two pairs in the south elevation, and a single cusped lancet at their western end. Bell-turret is timber-framed with a square weatherboarded base, 2-light louvred bell-chamber openings, a splay-footed and weatherboarded short spire and a weathervane. South porch is gabled and timber-framed with lias limestone rubble sides, cusped bargeboards and a cross finial; the pointed archway has quatrefoils pierced in the spandrels and flanking pointed lights with trefoils pierced in their spandrels; sides have 4-light openings with quatrefoil traceried infill panels; within is a pointed doorway of two chamfered orders. Chancel: angled buttresses at east end and small central east-end buttress; 3-light pointed east window; north elevation has two lancets and south elevation has a south-east lancet and a south-west 2-light square-headed window. Interior: pointed chancel arch with cusped pointed niches at the base of the jambs; moulded cambered arches above window openings; 2-course blue brick sill band and also an impost band of alternate blue and yellow brick courses. Ashlared collar and scissor rafter roof to nave and barrel roof to chancel. Flooring and altar rails include woodwork from former church. Two low walls with east returns and a pierced quatrefoil frieze separate nave from chancel. Octagonal font probably of C13 origins, now recut. Ashlar pulpit with marble inset detail. Memorials: chancel has three wall memorials surmounted by urn reliefs to members of the Brooke family of late C18 and early C19 date. (VCH 3 (ii), p 538; BoE, p 280).

Listing NGR: SO9022656982