Church of St. Clement

The Church of St. Clement is a Grade I listed building located in Ashampstead, dating back to the early 13th century. It underwent restorations in 1849 and 1894. The church features rendered walls with stone dressings and old tile roofs. At the west end of the nave, there is a bell turret with wavy-edged weatherboarding, louvred openings on all sides, and a shingled pyramidal cap topped with a lead finial and weathervane. The structure includes a nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry.

On the west front of the nave, there is a lancet window with a cill string. The south front has a chamfered doorway with a hoodmould and a boarded door, along with a 19th-century gabled porch featuring a moulded arch, hoodmould, boarded door, and windows with two trefoiled lights, square heads, and returned hoodmoulds on both the east and west faces. To the left of the porch, there is a window with two cinquefoiled lights under a square head with a returned hoodmould, while to the right, there are two windows with two and three cinquefoiled lights under square heads with returned hoodmoulds. The south front also has two brick buttresses, one located between the windows and one to the right.

The north front features one 13th-century lancet window, and a 19th-century gabled vestry projects to the right, which has a window to the west with two trefoiled lights under a square head with a hoodmould, and an identical window to the east.

On the south front of the chancel, there is a blocked 13th-century arched doorway to the left, and to the right, two 13th-century lancets are positioned between two brick and tile buttresses, with one buttress set back. The north front of the chancel has two 13th-century lancets, while the east front features 19th-century triple lancets with a cill string and an impost string carried over the lancets as a hoodmould.

Inside the nave, there is a medieval roof with four bays, tie beams, arch-braced collars, and double purlins supported by two tiers of windbraces. The interior also contains extensive 13th-century wall paintings on the north wall and above the chancel beam. The chancel has a medieval roof with three bays, tie beams, arch-braced collars, and two tiers of windbraces, along with some wall paintings on the north side. All fittings within the church are from the 19th century.