Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 CHURCH HILL
1011-1/7/4 (North West side)
10/01/51 Chapel ruins to east of Church of
Holy Trinity

GV II*

Chapel, possibly detached chantry chapel. Ruinous. c1300.
Local grey slatestone rubble with freestone dressings. Plan:
roofless ruin of an aisleless building of which the E wall,
part of the S wall and a small section of the N wall remain.
EXTERIOR: very thick walls with putlock holes and a wide,
deeply splayed E window, dressed externally with alternating
bands of chamfered red and cream stone with a glazing rebate.
The surviving dressings suggest a trefoil-headed window. The S
side retains the remains of a similarly-decorated probable
lancet to the E, the sill mended with mullions; a doorway with
a cranked relieving arch (dressings gone) and the E jamb of
another window. The N side preserves the fragmentary remains
of the E jamb of another window. INTERIOR: preserves the
fragmentary remains of wall plaster. Close inspection reveals
some traces of red and yellow painted decoration on the splay
of the E window. A very unusual survival.

Listing NGR: SX7428666567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535457

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings