Church Of St Peter Ad Vincula

The Church of St Peter Ad Vincula is a parish church rebuilt in 1868 by Hopkins on the site of an earlier church. It is constructed with brick facing, coursed lias limestone rubble, sandstone ashlar dressings, and a plain tiled roof, topped with a timber bell-turret. The church comprises a four-bay nave with a bell turret and a south porch, and a two-bay chancel. It is designed in the Early English style.

The nave features a chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses at both the west and eastern ends of the side elevations. The west end has four large lancet windows and a rose window at the apex. The side elevations have paired cusped lancet windows: three pairs on the north side and two pairs on the south side, with a single cusped lancet at the western end of each. The timber-framed bell-turret has a square weatherboarded base, two-light louvred bell-chamber openings, a splay-footed and weatherboarded short spire, and a weathervane.

The gabled south porch is timber-framed with lias limestone rubble sides, cusped bargeboards, a cross finial, and a pointed archway with quatrefoils in the spandrels, flanked by pointed lights with trefoils in their spandrels. The sides of the porch have four-light openings with quatrefoil traceried infill panels, and the interior features a pointed doorway of two chamfered orders.

The chancel has angled buttresses at the east end and a small central buttress. It has a three-light pointed east window, two lancets on the north elevation, and a lancet and a two-light square-headed window on the south elevation.

Inside, the chancel arch is pointed, with cusped pointed niches at the base of the jambs. The window openings have moulded cambered arches, and the walls feature a two-course blue brick sill band and an impost band of alternating blue and yellow brick courses. The nave has an ashlared collar and scissor rafter roof, while the chancel has a barrel roof. Flooring and altar rails incorporate woodwork from the former church. Two low walls with east returns and a pierced quatrefoil frieze separate the nave from the chancel. A font, likely of 13th-century origin, has been recut. An ashlar pulpit includes marble inset detail. The chancel contains three wall memorials featuring urn reliefs, commemorating members of the Brooke family from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.