Ruins Of The Chapel Of St Thomas Becket

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SX0767 PRIORY ROAD 629-1/2/100 (North side) 08/06/72 Ruins of the Chapel of St Thomas Becket

GV II*

Chapel, now roofless. Licensed 1377. Local rubble with granite and freestone dressings. Rectangular plan with porch south of west end. Single storey over crypt, 5-bay buttressed south wall with porch on the left. Porch has segmental-arched opening at the front and similar inner doorway; entrance up steps into left-hand side. 2 pointed-arched south windows with hoodmoulds and 4 small crypt windows with flat heads and relieving arches. North wall has 2 pointed windows similar to south windows, all grooved for glazing. East wall has large 3-light late Decorated window with unusual tracery which is transitional towards Perpendicular. INTERIOR: pointed rere-arches, the east window with moulded arch carried on octagonal nook shafts; sedilia to south wall of east end with 3 cinquefoil arches within pointed hoodmoulds under a square hoodmould; ogee-headed cinquefoil aumbry on its left. Many carved fragments lying about including probable piscina; vaulted crypt. A rare C14 building in Cornwall and the decorated window tracery is of particular interest and rarity for Cornwall. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Radcliffe E: Cornwall: 1970-: 43).

Listing NGR: SX0736267024