Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse is a Grade I listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1965. A C15 Chapel.
Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-sill-dale
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1965
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an agricultural store that was formerly a chapel, located approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse. It dates from the 15th century and may have been the chapel of St James the Apostle, which was licensed in the parish of Lapford in 1434. The structure is made of mudstone rubble with granite details and has a thatched roof. It is gable-ended and features a round-headed oak doorway on the south side, along with a granite round-headed window that has a chamfered surround, sunken spandrels, and holes for iron saddlebars on either side. The east end has the arched head of a blocked granite window with Perpendicular tracery, although the lower part was cut away for a later doorway that is now blocked. There is also another blocked doorway on the west end, and the long walls contain a series of putlog holes, which were used for scaffolding.
Inside, the chapel retains some limewashed medieval plaster and an original open wagon roof that is intact. The roof consists of four bays, with main trusses and a wall plate that is soffit-chamfered. The western bay has four common rafter trusses, while the other three bays have three common rafter trusses each.
Detached chapels like this one are extremely rare in Devon, and this example is exceptionally well preserved.
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