Chapel of St Saviour
CHAPEL OF ST SAVIOUR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329294
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST SAVIOUR
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329294
- Date first listed:
- 21-Aug-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST SAVIOUR
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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 SAVIOUR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lanteglos
- National Grid Reference:
- SX1251450798
Details
SX lS SW LANTEGLOS-BY-FOWEY POLRUAN
8/63 Chapel of St Saviour
21/8/64
- II
Ruin of chapel, probably C13. Rubblestone foundations and rubblestone remains of
north-west angle of chapel, some 8 or 10 metres in height, with low angle
buttresses. Some fragments of stone window tracery recorded in vicinity in private
garden.
Stands on hilltop at entry of Fowey Haven. St Saviours church was founded in
C8. In 1284, Robert de Boyton gave advousen of the parish church of Lanteglos and
chapel of St Saviour to St Mary and the hospital of St John the Baptist at
Bridgewater. A licence for the chapel was granted and renewed in 1372 and 1374.
Boconnoc estate map of Polruan 1771 shows ruinous remains of the chapel in 2 parts.
A Scheduled Ancient Monument.
N A Ackland and R M Druce Lanteglos-by-Fowey with Polruan and Bodinnick, 1978; C
Henderson The Cornish Church Guide, 1925 rp1964; J Meyrick A Pilgrims guide to the
Holy Wells of Cornwall, 1982
Listing NGR: SX1251450798
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60585
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ackland, , Druce, , Lanteglos by Fowey with Polruan and Bodinnick The Story of a Parish, (1978)
Meyrick, J, A Pilgrim's Guide to the Holy Wells of Cornwall, (1982)
Henderson, C, The Cornish Church Guide, (1925)
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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