Ruins of the Chapel of St Thomas Becket
RUINS OF THE CHAPEL OF ST THOMAS BECKET, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195280
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of the Chapel of St Thomas Becket
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF THE CHAPEL OF ST THOMAS BECKET, PRIORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195280
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of the Chapel of St Thomas Becket
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF THE CHAPEL OF ST THOMAS BECKET, PRIORY ROAD
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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:
- RUINS OF THE CHAPEL OF ST THOMAS BECKET, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodmin
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 07362 67025
Details
BODMIN
SX0767 PRIORY ROAD 629-1/2/100 (North side) 08/06/72 Ruins of the Chapel of St Thomas Becket
GV II*
Chapel, now roofless. Licensed 1377. Local rubble with granite and freestone dressings. Rectangular plan with porch south of west end. Single storey over crypt, 5-bay buttressed south wall with porch on the left. Porch has segmental-arched opening at the front and similar inner doorway; entrance up steps into left-hand side. 2 pointed-arched south windows with hoodmoulds and 4 small crypt windows with flat heads and relieving arches. North wall has 2 pointed windows similar to south windows, all grooved for glazing. East wall has large 3-light late Decorated window with unusual tracery which is transitional towards Perpendicular. INTERIOR: pointed rere-arches, the east window with moulded arch carried on octagonal nook shafts; sedilia to south wall of east end with 3 cinquefoil arches within pointed hoodmoulds under a square hoodmould; ogee-headed cinquefoil aumbry on its left. Many carved fragments lying about including probable piscina; vaulted crypt. A rare C14 building in Cornwall and the decorated window tracery is of particular interest and rarity for Cornwall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Radcliffe E: Cornwall: 1970-: 43).
Listing NGR: SX0736267024
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 43
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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