FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315

FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173737
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315, STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173737
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315, STATION ROAD

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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:: FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315, STATION ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cheddar
National Grid Reference:: ST 45730 53150

Details

ST45SE CHEDDAR CP STATION ROAD (South side)

6/141 Former chapel dedicated to St Columbanus, now ruin, in the grounds of Kings of Wessex School at NGR ST 4573 5315

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Former chapel, now ruin. Early C14. Random rubble, oblong on plan, diagonal corner buttresses, that north-east missing; Featureless north and south walls lowered to approximately one metre of the ground, end walls remain except the upper portions of the gables; roof completely missing. Western elevation has door opening in a chamfered stone surround with a pointed arch head; above a blocked window, deep splays and segmental pointed rere-arch to the inside of this wall. East wall with a blocked window, single trefoiled head of the tracery remaining, deep splays, cusped rere-arch. Remains of a pent-roofed single storey outshut to east end, roof missing; massive buttress to centre of east wall. Adjacent to former Saxon royal palace.

Listing NGR: ST4573053150

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Legacy System number:: 268795
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.