Berry Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1949. Tower.
Berry Tower
- WRENN ID
- tired-tracery-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1949
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BODMIN
SX0767 CEMETERY ROAD 629-1/2/21 Berry Tower 26/03/49
GV II
Ruined tower surviving from Chapel of the Holy Rood. 1501-14. Coursed squared local stone with granite window dressings, roofless. Square on plan with enclosed internal stair turret to NW corner. 3-stage tower with strings dividing stages. Lower stage has springing of relieving arch of west doorway and hoodmould over pointed window above. 2nd stage has sill, right-hand jamb and part of 5-foil head of right-hand light of former 2-light window. Upper stage has remains of similar window to each side, the north, east and south windows with hoodmoulds, 2 cinquefoil heads to east window, half-head to north and south windows and part of hoodmould to west window. Stair ventilators/windows near NW corner; some unblocked putlog holes. (McClean J: Deanery of Trigg Minor: Bodmin: 1873-: 199; Long L E: An Old Cornish Town: Bodmin: 1975-: 54-65).
Listing NGR: SX0725067467
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