Ruins of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Marlin Chapel Farm
RUINS OF CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AT MARLIN CHAPEL FARM, MARLIN CHAPEL FARM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348471
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Marlin Chapel Farm
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AT MARLIN CHAPEL FARM, MARLIN CHAPEL FARM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348471
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Chapel of St Mary Magdalene at Marlin Chapel Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AT MARLIN CHAPEL FARM, MARLIN CHAPEL FARM
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:
- RUINS OF CHAPEL OF ST MARY MAGDALENE AT MARLIN CHAPEL FARM, MARLIN CHAPEL FARM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96282 07133
Details
NORTHCHURCH MARLIN CHAPEL FARM SP 90 NE (North side) 3/226 Ruins of Chapel of St Mary 14.5.52 Magdalene at Marlin Chapel Farm (Formerly listed as ruins of Chapel at Marlin Chapel Farm)
GV II
Chapel, now ruined. Probably C13. Flint with clunch dressings. A large rectangular chapel orientated ENE by E standing beside a former ancient roadway some 60m to W of moated manorial enclosure now occupied by Marlin Chapel Farm. Each corner stands to about 5m and the rest only to ground level. Chamfered stone plinth carried round diagonal corner buttresses. Prominent open putlog holes. Fenced and overgrown. VCH(1908)II 248 notes a late C13 charter of Sir Hugh de Broc augmenting the endownment of his Chapel of Magdalene. (RCHM (1901)157 no.2: Buckler dwg. 1828 in HRO).
Listing NGR: SP9628207133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157758
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1908), 248
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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