Chapel Cross
CHAPEL CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258890
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL CROSS
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- 2006-12-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/16240/29
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Sparkes. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1258890
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL CROSS
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 CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Cadbury and Sutton Montis
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63082 26316
Details
SOUTH CADBURY CP ST62NW - 4/140 Chapel Cross (formerly listed as 1 and 2 Chapel Cross Cottages 16.3.82. - II* Former wayside chapel, now cottage. C13 origins with later modifications and additions. Local grey lias and Cary stone, banded with Ham stone dressings; additions in Cary stone rubble; thatched roof between coped gables; stone chimney stack. Part single, part 2 storey, 3-bay north elevation. Bay 1 has a cinquefoil cusped single-light window with squared head having incised spandrils, the former square label shaved off; bay 2 has a trefoil cusped single light, smaller end set lower, again without label; between these a boarded studded door in plain 3-centre archway; bay 3 is an extension probably C18, with 2-light horizontal bar casement below under timber lintol, and above an earlier casement, also 2-light in which the left light has rectangular leaded panes: plain lean-to with clay pantiled roof against west gable. East gable has chamfered plinth and cross finial on gabletted cross to coping, and a C20 copy of a cinque-foil cusped window with false label to match that on north side; also a squint in the north-east corner. South elevation has similar window to bay 3, although the head is a restoration; the bay 2 window is a C20 copy of that opposite in north wall; the extension bay 1, has 2 horizontal bar casements, with a boarded door in the west gable lean-to. Inside, the former chapel has a moulded rib and plaster panel ceiling; plastered walls with traces of medieval paintings on east wall, and in the south-east corner a recess, possibly marking a former doorway; 4-centred rere-arches to all windows: at west end a C20 gallery and stair case and in west wall a moulded pointed arched doorway, the base of the arch mutilated; the C18 section has an exposed timber ceiling at ground floor level, and a partly reconstructed fireplace in west gable. Formerly listed as 2 properties, the whole now forms one cottage.
Listing NGR: ST6308226316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445805
- 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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