FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105611
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHAPEL APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES SOUTH OF BRIGHTLEY FARMHOUSE
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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.
End of official listing
