Church Of St Peter Ad Vincula

The Church of St Peter ad Vincula is an Anglican parish church largely dating to the 13th and 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1882. It is constructed of flint and limestone, with a tiled roof. The plan incorporates a west tower, a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, and a chancel.

The gabled south porch features a hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway flanked by buttresses with offsets. The south side of the nave displays a 16th-century three-light window with cusped lights and a hoodmould, a 13th-century window with a pair of cusped lancets and a trefoil, and buttresses with offsets. The chancel has a pointed priest's doorway, flanked by a pair of cusped lancets. The east end has diagonal buttresses and a 19th-century three-light geometric-style window with foliated terminals to the hoodmould. The north side of the chancel has a pair of cusped lancets and a lean-to vestry with a cusped light.

The 19th-century north aisle has a three-light geometric-style east window, diagonal buttresses, a pitched roof, a pointed north doorway with double doors, and a two-light trefoiled window on either side and to the west. The two-stage west tower has a moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, three-light Perpendicular windows with a hoodmould facing west, a square-headed cusped light to the north, an offset bellstage with a two-light Perpendicular window on each face with louvres, a string course, and a battlemented parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles.

Inside, a panelled porch ceiling sits above a chamfered pointed doorway with a planked door and ornamental strap hinges. The four-bay nave roof has scissor bracing to the collar and a rib-panelled ceiling. A restored 19th-century tower arch is present. The three-bay north arcade features double-chamfered pointed arches on square piers with simple moulded capitals. The aisle roof has arch-braced collar and tie-beam trusses and rib-panelling. A 19th-century chancel arch is double-cyma moulded, resting on triple shaft corbels, with a square hoodmould. The two-bay chancel roof has cusped principals and rib-panelling. A cusped 19th-century piscina is set into the south wall. The church contains good early 18th-century communion rails with a gate and turned barley-sugar balusters. There are also 19th-century pews and choir stalls.

A grey marble tablet on the north wall of the chancel commemorates Robert Barber of Ashmore (died 1686) and another Robert Barber of Ashcombe (died 1740), featuring a gadrooned apron, fluted pilasters, a cornice with urn finials, and a heraldic cartouche. A Gothic memorial is dedicated to George Pitt-Rivers (died 1810) by T. Gaffin of London. A marble sarcophagus and memorial commemorate General A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (died 1900), noting his 20 years of anthropological research and role as Inspector of Ancient Monuments. A 14th-century recumbent knight, Sir William Payne, is located in the nave. Fine Italian stained glass by Bertini of Milan, dating to 1867, is present in the north aisle.