Chapel Of St Saviour

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