Holy Trinity Chapel

HOLY TRINITY CHAPEL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169984
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Holy Trinity Chapel
Statutory Address:
HOLY TRINITY CHAPEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1169984
Date first listed:
20-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Holy Trinity Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
HOLY TRINITY CHAPEL

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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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
HOLY TRINITY CHAPEL

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

County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Drewsteignton
National Park:
Dartmoor
National Grid Reference:
SX7542392417

Details

SX 79 SE CHERITON BISHOP CROCKERNWELL

10/297 Holy Trinity Chapel

II


House and Barn now Chapel of Ease. Converted from former house and barn. House
dated 1658; Chapel rebuilt circa 1880. Plastered cob on exposed rubble footings
with some C19 brick; pantile roof. Long gable-ended building facing south with
simple rectangular plan. Door at west end of south front behind gabled porch of
open timber-framed construction on low plastered walls. 5 window front comprising
4 high timber framed windows to nave and small window to chancel. The 2 western
nave windows have 3 lights and central transom, the others are 2-light. All have
chamfered mullions and shoulder-headed arches and contain the original glazing-
geometric patterns of small leaded panes of translucent, pale-coloured glass. The
brick coping of western gable is surmounted by a small timber-framed belfry.
Inside the evidence of 2-storey C17 house shows in west wall; stone ground floor
fireplace (now a cupboard) has ovolo-moulded oak lintel with bar-runout stops and
is inscribed L
WI
with the date 1658, and first floor hooded fireplace with chamfered oak lintel and
unusual lozenge stops is now high on west wall above disused floor beam (chamfered
with scroll stops). The high flat ceiling may hide some C17 trusses but only 5 C19
the beams on raking struts are exposed. Chapel has entirely C19 fittings very
similar to contemporary work in Church of St Mary the Virgin, Cheriton Bishop
(q.v.), the Mother church, including similarly carved choir stalls and ironwork by
the same local craftsman. The original oil lamps remain but are converted to
electricity.


Listing NGR: SX7542392417

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
95144
Legacy System:
LBS

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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