Petton Chapel
PETTON CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325633
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Petton Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- PETTON CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325633
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Petton Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PETTON 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:
- PETTON CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0076224449
Details
ST 02 SW BAMPTON PETTON
7/56 Petton Chapel
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GV II
Chapel of ease to Bampton. Re-opened 1848 after thorough rebuilding by G. Boyce of
Tiverton, builder Mr Gale of Bampton. Local stone rubble with slate roofs, the apse
roof bitumen-painted.
Plan and Development: Nothing of the medieval chapel is visible apart from the bells.
Small, aisleless, Romanesque-style chapel with an apsidal east end, west doorway and
bellcote, north-east vestry. Boyces original design was modified on the advice of
the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society who recommended more correct Romanesque
proportions and details. Internally and externally the building is virtually
unaltered since 1848.
Exterior: 4-bay nave with pilasters and round-headed windows with chamfered
architraves and lattice iron glazing bars string course below windows; similar
pilasters and 3 windows to apse. North east vestry with round-headed east window and
west doorway, small east lean-to. The west end has corner pilasters and a triple
order round-headed doorway with colonnettes and capitals. 2-leaf west door.
Romanesque style Rose west window, the lights divided by colonnettes with cushion
capitals. Gabled west end bellcote for 2 bells, bells medieval.
Interior: Plastered walls ; 4-bay arched brace nave roof on corbels ; round-headed
chancel arch on cushion corbels ; 1 arched brace truss to the chancel, the apse
decorated with pilaster ribs with zig-zag ornament. Bowl font with palmette
decoration and frieze ; timber drum pulpit reduced in height. Timber altar rail with
chamfered standards ; original benches with doors. 1840 memorial tablet behind
pulpit, reused from earlier Church and given a zig-zag Romanesque frame ; stripe of
red glass in east window.
An extremely attractive and very intact isolated chapel. The use of Romanesque is
late for the date.
Listing NGR: ST0076224449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96700
- 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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