Chapel of St Lawrence
CHAPEL OF ST LAWRENCE, LANDSCORE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197082
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST LAWRENCE, LANDSCORE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197082
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Lawrence
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST LAWRENCE, LANDSCORE
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.
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 LAWRENCE, LANDSCORE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Crediton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 82576 00410
Details
CREDITON
SS8200 LANDSCORE 672-1/3/120 (North side (off)) 19/03/51 Chapel of St Lawrence
GV II
Chapel. Early C13 origins, said to have been left ruinous after the 1743 fire of Crediton (old list description), used as a cottage at one time until thoroughly restored 1920-21 by Sir Charles Nicholson, restoration paid for by Mrs Drake of Winswood (q.v.). Now used infrequently by Queen Elizabeth School. Local volcanic trap and sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; pantile roof. Early English Exterior: Largely rebuilt. plain clasping buttresses. East end has a triple lancet with double-chamfered lights and a hoodmould. West end similar with a moulded string at sill level. The north side appears to contain more original wall masonry than the south. North door with a double-chamfered 2-centred doorway with a hoodmould with label stops, flanked by lancet windows with chamfered frames and hoodmoulds with label stops. Blocked opening below western lancet. The south side is similar but with 3 chamfered lancets with hoodmoulds and label stops;dooray matches that on the north side. Interior: Plastered walls; windows with deep internal splays. Detail largely 1920s, all fittings 1920s. A segmental-headed chamfered recess on the north wall of the chancel has medieval masonry on the west side with a short section of original moulded stone string. Internal splays of east and west windows have medieval chamfers and stops.
Listing NGR: SS8257600410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387068
- 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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