Queen Adelaides Chapel
QUEEN ADELAIDES CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310617
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Adelaides Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN ADELAIDES CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310617
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Queen Adelaides Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN ADELAIDES CHAPEL
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:
- QUEEN ADELAIDES CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maker-with-Rame
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 44180 48809
Details
SX 45 SW MAKER-WITH-RAME
8/77 Queen Adelaide's Chapel (formerly listed as the Grotto) 23.1.68 GV II
Eyecatcher in the form of a chapel or grotto. 1827/28, built to commemorate the visit of William IV to Mount Edgcumbe. Built on the edge of the cliff and partly cut out of the solid rock; slatestone rubble walls with granite dressings and slate roof. Irregular plan, with tunnel entrance to left and 3-sided chamber to right, forming 3 gabled sides each under separate roof; internal triangular recess in rear, carved out of the cliff. Picturesque Gothic style. Tunnel to left has 4-centre arched entrance to left side; 2 bays long, divided by a buttress and with a diagonal buttress to left end, with string course above buttresses and embattled parapet. The chamber to right has 3 splayed bays to front, each with 4 centred arched opening. Central arch of one plain granite order, outer arches of 2 orders. Each arch has slatestone relieving arch and swept buttress left and right, surmounted by small granite obelisk finials. One obelisk to right of central arch missing. Coped gable over each arch. Wall is returned to rear right, also embattled. Interior The tunnel and the chamber have stone vaulted roofs. To the rear of the chamber, the triangular recess in the rock has bench carved out of the rock, with sockets remaining for fixing wooden seating. Property of Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
Listing NGR: SX4334551282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 61735
- 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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