Gothic Ruin, About Half A Mile North of Crowcombe Court
GOTHIC RUIN, ABOUT HALF A MILE NORTH OF CROWCOMBE COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057448
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Ruin, About Half A Mile North of Crowcombe Court
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC RUIN, ABOUT HALF A MILE NORTH OF CROWCOMBE COURT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057448
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Ruin, About Half A Mile North of Crowcombe Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC RUIN, ABOUT HALF A MILE NORTH OF CROWCOMBE COURT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC RUIN, ABOUT HALF A MILE NORTH OF CROWCOMBE COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 14045 37350
Details
ST13NW CROWCOMBE CP
10/61 Gothic ruin, about half a mile North of Crowcombe Court
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GV II
Shown on OS Map as Convent (ruin). Folly in the form of ruined Gothic chapel. Circa 1776, incorporating some medieval stonework. Red sandstone random rubble, limestone dressings. Plan: cruciform, East end overlooking stream. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays; large arched East end window opening, remains of cusped tracery, finials on gable end, flanked by symmetrical, buttressed wings, first floor arched openings, larger 2-light openings below, remains of cusped tracery left. Gabled returns, moulded arched entrance North side, South side round headed arch entrance. Picturesquely sited ruin set high above the stream, half way up a steep wooded slope. Inaccessible at tile of survey (August 1983) because of dense undergrowth. Some of tracery reported to have come from demolished parts of Halsway Manor, or tne earlier Crowcombe Manor, demolished 1724. (Photograph in NMR; VCH Somerset, Vol.5 forthcoming; Country Life, April 22 1933).
Listing NGR: ST1404537350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265105
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dunning, R W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1985)
Country Life in 22 April, (1933)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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