Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse
Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse, Lapford
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1325618
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse, Lapford
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1325618
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse, Lapford
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 approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse, Lapford
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 73250 07185
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 June 2023 to remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SS 70 NW
4/59
LAPFORD
Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse
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Agricultural store, former chapel. C15, possibly chapel of St James the Apostle licensed in parish of Lapford in 1434. Mudstone rubble with granite detail; thatched roof. Gable-ended block. South side includes a round-headed oak doorway to left and a granite round-headed window with chamfered surround and sunken spandrels and holes for iron saddlebars each side. In east end the arched head of blocked granite window with Perpendicular tracery survives but lower part was cut away by later doorway (now blocked). Another secondary blocked doorway in west end. Long walls include a series of putlog (scaffolding) holes.
Interior includes some limewashed medieval plaster. Original open wagon roof survives intact. It is four bays with main trusses and wall plate soffit-chamfered. The western bay includes four common rafter trusses, the other three include three common rafter trusses.
Detached chapels such as this are extremely rare in Devon and this example is exceptionally well preserved.
Listing NGR: SS7325207187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96510
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, NW, A Devon farm: Bury Barton, Lapford in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. XCVIII, (1966), 105-131
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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