Chapel of St Michael at Roche Rock
CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL AT ROCHE ROCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1327342
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Michael at Roche Rock
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL AT ROCHE ROCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1327342
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Michael at Roche Rock
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL AT ROCHE ROCK
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 OF ST MICHAEL AT ROCHE ROCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Roche
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 99112 59618
Details
ROCHE
SW 95 NE
5/222 Chapel of St Michael at Roche Rock
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1O.2.57
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Chapel. Licensed 1409. Squared dressed granite.
Plan: has the appearance of a 3-stage tower, with a lower room for a chaplain and
the chapel above. The chapel is built on the side, near the top of a massive jagged
outcrop of schorl and the floor of the lower room is the rock.
The east front has a moulded string courses, at the first stage no windows, the 2nd
stage has a small single light with trefoil head, moulded granite jambs and lintel
with voussoirs. The 3rd stage has large 2-centred arched window with moulded jambs
and relieving arch. Upper gable end. On the south side, there is a 4-centred arches
doorway to the chaplain's room, with roll-moulded surround.
Interior The floor between the chaplain's room and the chapel has been removed; at
the upper level to north is a small window with flat lintel.
St Michael's Chapel is of outstanding landscape value. The site would have been:
chosen for its isolation, and as particularly suitable for a dedication to St
Michael; now, no longer used as a chapel, and without a roof, it has also assumed the
qualities a romantic folly. The combination of the jagged rock face and the dressed
granite forms an architectural unity, whether it is viewed as a mediaeval chapel or
as a romantic ruin.
Ancient monument no, 191.
Listing NGR: SW9910859617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70972
- 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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