Church Of St Peter Ad Vincula

The Church of St Peter ad Vincula is a parish church located in Colemore, with origins dating back to the 11th century, and further developments in the 12th and 17th centuries, alongside restorations in 1874 and 1975. The church features walls made of flint and rubble stone, which are mostly covered in cement render. It has stone buttresses added in 1612 and 1874. The windows are primarily Victorian cusped lancets, but there is also a small Norman window in the transept, a small late 12th-century lancet, and a larger 13th-century lancet. The west window consists of coupled lancets beneath a quatrefoil, while the east end has triple lancets. The roof is plain and hipped above the transept, with a higher ridge at the end, topped by a bell turret from 1866 that has a broach spire.

This single-cell church includes a north transept with a Norman arch, a south porch added in 1874, and the east end, which was refaced in 1874. The west end was raised to form a belfry in 1612 and rebuilt in 1866. Inside, the church has a plain interior featuring piscinas in the chapel and transept, a small slype, remnants of a rood stair, a restored easter sepulchre, a 15th-century wood screen, a 17th-century nave roof, and a Purbeck 12th-century font with a panelled square on a drum and corner columns. There are also wall monuments dating from 1692, 1748, and 1814, floor slabs, a floor brass from 1718, and two old bells from 1380 and 1627 hung in the nave.