FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE

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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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FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE

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OKEHAMPTON HAMLETS SX 59 NE

4/94 Former Chapel approximately 10 - metres South of Brightley Farmhouse

GV II

Outbuilding, reputedly formerly a chapel. Medieval, much altered probably in C19 and C20. Local stone rubble walls considerably heightened in brick. Gable ended corrugated iron roof. Plan: Single cell plan with original entrance in right gable end. Probably in C19 doorways were inserted on front and rear walls but the building is likely to have ceased being a chapel long before this; in the C20 the roof was raised. Single storey. Central cart entrance under a pentice roof supported on wooden posts which extends along the front wall. Original doorway, now blocked, is in right gable end and constructed of dressed granite voussoirs in a round-headed arch with dressed granite jambs. Interior: no original features survive and the roof structure is probably C20. Brightley is the site of a religious house founded in 1133 by Richard Fitz Baldwin and occupied by a superior and twelve monks who arrived from Waverley Abbey to build a new monastery. They abandoned Brightly in 1141 and were given a new site at Ford in East Devon which subsequently became Ford Abbey. Source: W G Hoskins - Devon

Listing NGR: SX5987497316

Selected Sources

Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, 'A New Survey of England' in Devon, (1972)

National Grid Reference: SX 59874 97316

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