Chapel of St Piran
CHAPEL OF ST PIRAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143411
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Piran
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST PIRAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143411
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Piran
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST PIRAN
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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:
- CHAPEL OF ST PIRAN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tintagel
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0766489172
Details
TINTAGEL TRETHEVEY
SX 08 NE
4/217 Chapel of St Piran
17.12.62
GV II
Chapel, probably converted to outbuilding after the Reformation and converted back
into a mission chapel dedicated to St Piran. Possibly C15 origins although the
building has been much altered; the walls were lowered in 1887 and the fabric heavily
restored in 1941 when it reverted back into a chapel.
Local slate stone rubble. Rag slate roof with gable ends. Rectangular single cell
plan with earlier entrance in north side blocked and entrance inserted in west gable
end.
Low building of single storey with several straight joints in the masonry on the
north side; blocked door on north side and partly restored 2-light chamfered granite
mullion window with cusped lancet towards the west. Plank door to entrance in west
gable end with row of pigeon holes above and 1-light segmental arched east window.
Interior : Simple pitch pine furnishings and C20 stone altar. Circa late C19 collar-
rafter roof.
The first mention of a chapel dedicated to St Pirans is in a licence granted by the
bishop to Parson Gregory to celebrate mass in 1457. The building appears to have
been used for agricultural purposes since the Reformation although the documentary
evidence is scanty. The Tithe Apportionment maps (1841) mark a Chapel Meadow
adjoining the site.
Canner, A C The Parish of Tintagel, some historical notes 1982
Listing NGR: SX0766489172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Canner, AC , The Parish of Tintagel some historical notes, 1982,
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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