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Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula

Chapel Of St Peter Ad Vincula

Greater London

Greater London

West end has late C19 quatrefoil window over late C19 Tudor-arched doorway and flint tower with Portland stone dressings and late C17 wood bell cupola

Architectural Features

Nave has squint and round-arched piscina with sunk spandrels to west, and octagonal font with quatrefoil panels

Memorials: sanctuary has late C19 memorial to those executed on Tower Green and C17/18 memorial slabs

Memorial of c.1650 to children of George Payler has figures set in oval niches

memorial to Captain Valentine Pyne, d.1677, flanked by cannon instead of columns with relief carving of ship to base

Fine monument to John Holland, Duke of Exeter, d.1447 (transferred from St Katherin's Chapel, Regent's Park) has tomb chest with 3 recumbent effigies framed within fine Perpendicular canopy with angles to spandrels and frieze, various beasts and grotesques and carved heads to cusping

a rare example of an early C16 chapel.