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
Constituency
Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1965
Type
Chapel
OS grid reference
SS 732 071
Coordinates
50.85025, -3.80194
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

Chapel approximately 40 metres north-east of Bury Barton Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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