THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS

THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS, ABBEY PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105869
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS
Statutory Address:: THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS, ABBEY PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1105869
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1983
List Entry Name:: THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS
Statutory Address 1:: THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS, ABBEY PLACE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE ABBEY CHAPEL FORECOURT WALL AND PIERS, ABBEY PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Tavistock
National Grid Reference:: SX 48167 74344

Details

1. 5185 ABBEY PLACE

The Abbey Chapel Forecourt Wall and Piers (formerly listed as Unitarian Chapel) SX 4874 4/2 7.9.51

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2. Late C15 or early C16. Originally the Abbots Hall but used as a non-conformist Chapel from C17 onwards. Built of granite. West end gable fronted with Saddlestone. Double pointed arched window with hood moulding and C16 granite entrance arch with hood moulding and carved spandrels. On the south wall are buttresses, an external chimney and an original window (now blocked). Attached granite forecourt wall which has 2 sets of rusticated gatepiers with ball finials. The original Mediaeval roof is said to be concealed under the coved plaster ceiling.

Listing NGR: SX4816374339

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Legacy System number:: 93387
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.