Tower of Collegiate Chantry of St Mary
TOWER OF COLLEGIATE CHANTRY OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1317950
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of Collegiate Chantry of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER OF COLLEGIATE CHANTRY OF ST MARY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1317950
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tower of Collegiate Chantry of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER OF COLLEGIATE CHANTRY OF ST MARY
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:
- TOWER OF COLLEGIATE CHANTRY OF ST MARY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Slapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 82162 45061, SX 82165 45057
Details
SLAPTON SLAPTON SX8245 Tower of Collegiate 11/115 Chantry of St Mary 26.1.67 GV I
West tower of collegiate chantry church. Circa 1372 or 3. Dressed and coursed slate rubble. Tall square tower about 80ft high in 3 stages with stringcourses, diagonal buttresses with set-offs at the corners and a polygonal stair turret on the south west corner with a corbel table and a very small stone spire. The main tower also has corbels but the parapet above is missing. Lancets at the ringing stage and slightly larger pointed arch openings to the bell stage above. The large west window below has been converted into an archway and blocked later. The tall arch on the east side to the former nave has a dressed stone 2-centred arch and weathering above where the nave roof joined. The stair turret has small window slits. All the dressed and moulded stone from the windows has been removed but inside the moulded rib springing of the vault to the first stage survives. The roof is missing. Historical note: In 1373 Sir Guy de Brian, standard-bearer to Edward III at the Battle of Crecy and lord of the manor, founded a collegiate chantry here with an endowment of 6 priests, 1 rector, 5 fellows and 4 clerks. After the foundation of the college the tithes of the parish church were appropriated to the chantry one of whose priests was appointed Minister to the church. The last rector of the chantry was Nicholas Morton. At the Dissolution the chantries revenues were granted to Thomas Arundel. It remained in the possession of the Arundels until the C17 when it passed to the Page family. Now all that survives above ground is the west tower of the chantry church. There might be some early fabric in the adjacent house known as The Chantry qv. Sources: B F Cresswell, Notes on Devon Churches, Deanery of Woodleigh, 1923, W G Hoskins, Devon.
Listing NGR: SX8216345061
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Woodleigh, (1923)
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972)
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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