Chapel of St Mary Including Boundary Walls Adjoining to North West
CHAPEL OF ST MARY INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326105
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Including Boundary Walls Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326105
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Mary Including Boundary Walls Adjoining to North West
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST MARY INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
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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 OF ST MARY INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 65080 93580
Details
SX 6493-6593 SOUTH TAWTON SOUTH ZEAL
8/234 Chapel of St Mary including 22.2.67 boundary walls adjoining to north- west GV II*
Chapel of Ease. Dated 1713 but probably C15 or C15 origins, thoroughly renovated in 1877. Coursed blocks of granite ashlar on granite boulder footings, granite ashlar detail; slate roof. Plan: small chapel built on a north-west south-east axis. Simple unaisled structure, rectangular in plan with a bellcote over the north-west gable. Exterior: doorway in centre of north-west end wall; a 2-centred, almost round- headed, arch with chamfered surround. Directly above a painted C19 olockface. On the gable here is the pretty bellcote, the only feature left which suggests a date earlier than 1713. Built of granite ashlar it has a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles. Each side is a 2-bay arcade of low segmental arches and the corners are carved like minature set back buttresses with weathered coping. Both gable ends have shaped kneelers and coping. Both sides have 2-window fronts of C19 replacement 2-light windows; flat-topped, pointed arch heads and sunken spandrels. Taller 3- light version on south-east end is original. Above it a plaque dated 1713 and above that another dated 1877. Interior is wholly the result of the C19 refurbishment; arch-braced truss roof and plain pine fittings and furniture. A narrow plot of ground at the north-west end is enclosed by C19 low rubble walls with rusticated granite coping with iron railings and twisted standards set into the top. Gateway has granite ashlar posts. Some of the larger boulders in the footings are said to be a type of granite not found locally and therefore some religious, even pre-Christian, significance has been attributed to them. According to the parish churchwardens accounts the place was used as a school in 1773. The chapel occupies a prominent central position in South Zeal which is a special settlement being one of the few medieval boroughs in Devon where a significant number of its late-medieval houses survive to a greater or lesser extent. Source: Devon SMR
Listing NGR: SX6508093580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95034
- 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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