Former Chapel Approximately 10 Metres South of Brightley Farmhouse
FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105611
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel Approximately 10 Metres South of Brightley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105611
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Former Chapel Approximately 10 Metres South of Brightley Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
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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:
- FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Okehampton Hamlets
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 59874 97316
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94337
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972)
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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