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St Peter AD Vincula

St Peter Ad Vincula

Broad Hinton

Wiltshire

C13, C15, 1634-5, restored 1879-80 by C.E. Ponting

Architectural Features

Chancel C12 rebuilt 1879, with south organ chamber of 1880

C15 west tower

Porch C17, restored C19 with side lights and sundial in gable over 2-centred arched door

Inner door C13, 2-centred and with hood moulded with flattened leaf terminals

Nave and chancel have lancets, C17 but including some reused stone, and some paired, with C19 hood mouldings

Organ chamber, formerly a chapel, has re-set C13 round arched door

Five-bay tie beam trusses with hammer beams at collar level and many carved pendents, all of 1634-5. Rood stair in north wall and piscina in south wall

C12 carved window head

moulded C13 arch

Fittings: Font, C19, octagonal and stencilled

Pulpit, 1843, incorporating earlier rail and linenfold panels, and painted inscription

Furniture: C18 three-drawer dresser in nave, and carved C19 seat in chancel with 2 late C17 basket backed chairs and a stool

Glass: Four chancel windows by Clayton and Bell

Monuments: Nave, north wall: marble aedicule, C18, pilasters supporting open pediment and arched panel with putto over, to Ann Hughes, died 1786

Inlaid limestone tablet to John Smith, 1879, and Gothic wall monument to Mary Ruddle Brown and child by Osmond of Sarum, 1832

limestone 6-poster monument of 1597 to Sir Thomas Wroughton, sheriff, he, without hands, kneeling with wife behind in widow's hood on table of tomb, their 8 children on frieze below

Asymmetrical arches with angels in spandrels supporting entablature and crestings

white marble wall monument

C17 a tablet flanked by pilasters supporting segmental pediment and coloured arms

died 1680 and wife who bore 26 years "sine querela actos". Recessed monument with rounded top and bottom

containing full-size armed figure of Col

Pea pods flank central arms with angel supporters

Brass of 1826 and behind pulpit a brass of 1682 to the Paris family and ancestors

At west end of nave, two commandment boards, and 3 hatchments with further one under tower

Also under tower, 3 benefaction boards of C18 and C19 recording charities of 1614, 1741 and 1848-50, and Royal Arms of mid C18

Miscellaneous: In organ chamber, a wall tomb, C13-C14, re-set, and in porch, a coffin with head recess.