Chapel at Sheldon
CHAPEL AT SHELDON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097813
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Sheldon
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL AT SHELDON
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- Date:
- 2001-06-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/04601/09
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1097813
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel at Sheldon
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL AT SHELDON
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:
- CHAPEL AT SHELDON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddiscombsleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 83928 87023
Details
DODDISCOMBSLEIGH SX 88 NW 2/120 Chapel at Sheldon 26.3.75 GV II Chapel, no longer consecrated. Probably late C15, renovated in the late C20. Colourwashed rendered cob and stone ; thatched roof, gabled at ends. Plan: Small single cell building, rectangular on plan, on an east/west axis. Exterior: Extremely plain. Steps up to doorway on south side to the left, 2 late C20 long slit windows to the right, lighting the altar. Tiny one-light slit windows in west and east walls filled with C20 coloured glass. Interior: C20 bench seating round west, north and south walls. Remarkable 3-bay late C15 unceiled wagon roof with moulded ribs ; wall plates carved with a bold beaded ribbon. On the north side the wall plate is partly supported on small plain corbels and the roof bays do not seem to fit the space perfectly. White's Devon (1850) records that "there was anciently a small chapel at Sheldon".
Listing NGR: SX8392887023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85640
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1850)
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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