The Point in View

THE POINT IN VIEW, SUMMER LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1164937
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
The Point in View
Statutory Address:
THE POINT IN VIEW, SUMMER LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1164937
Date first listed:
06-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:
The Point in View
Statutory Address 1:
THE POINT IN VIEW, SUMMER LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE POINT IN VIEW, SUMMER LANE

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

County:
Devon
District:
East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Exmouth
National Grid Reference:
SY 00788 83506

Details

SUMMER LANE 1. 5176 Withycombe Raleigh The Point-in-View SY 08 SW 6/64 6.12.49. I 2. 1811. Built by the Misses Parminter as a small non-conformist chapel surrounded by single storey almshouses for 4 spinsters. One room, now the Vestry, was enclaved as a school for 6 "poor female children". The low square building is rendered white. There is a centre flat roofed entrance porch and all the windows are pointed with diagonal glazing bars. A 4 sided lead spire rises above the chapel or 'Point Room'. Miss Jane Parminter is buried here. In 1878, the Minister, the Rev J F Guenett, designed a pipe organ with pipes laid horizontally (instead of the usual vertical construction) beneath the rostrum. The organ has a folding console which is also a reading desk, thus making the maximum use of space in the tiny chapel.

Listing NGR: SY0079183506

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Legacy System number:
87525
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,

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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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