Chapel Plaister

Chapel Plaister is an Anglican chapel that was traditionally founded around 1235 by Sir John du Plessis, Earl of Warwick, and rebuilt in 1340 by Richard Plaisted of Castle Combe. The chapel is constructed of ashlar and rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. It features a nave and chancel, a north transept, and a projecting west porch. The west end of the nave has a simple stone bellcote. The elevations of the main chapel indicate that the roof was raised, likely in the 15th century when the porch was added.

The porch has a small segmental pointed arched doorway and a leaded light above it. On the south side of the nave, there is a two-storey section with an upper two-light recessed mullion window and a lower two-light window with Tudor arched heads. The chancel retains heavy eaves moulding and traces of gable coping at its original height, with a coped east gable. The south side features an upper two-light 15th-century window with segmental arched heads, a lower door with a shouldered head, and a small pair of lancets to the right. A heavy moulded plinth runs around the chancel and north transept.

The east end of the chancel has a central buttress, and the north side has a similar 15th-century upper two-light window and a lower pair of lancets. To the right, there is a two-light window made up of fragments. The north transept has a ridge stack, a coped north gable, and heavy moulding at the original eaves level, along with a restored three-light 14th-century north window with a hoodmould. The west side of the transept no longer has a moulded plinth and features a small restored two-light window.

The nave's north wall includes an 18th-century upper two-light flush cyma-moulded window. Inside the porch, there is a moulded 14th or 15th-century Tudor-arched west door with carved spandrels and a fine 14th-century carved niche above. The interior appears to have been two-storey from the 15th century but is now a single storey, with three canopied niches on the east wall and corbels for chancel transverse arches that were removed when the roof was raised.