St Helens Chapel Cottage And Remains Of St Helens Chapel To East

SS 43 NW GEORGEHAM HOBBS HILL (south-east side), Croyde 6/129 St Helens Chapel Cottage and - remains of St Helens Chapel to 25.2.65 east GV II

Former chapel and adjoining Cottage, now one dwelling and chapel remains. Medieval chapel restored C20, cottage to west end of Chapel built in 1906. Chapel of rubble stone, cottage of rubble stone and cob whitewashed rendered with stacks to each end of tiled roof. Chapel roof plain tiled with gable end to inhabited portion. Chapel 1½ storeys to inhabited part. 2-storey cottage has 3-window south front of C20 2-light casements and C20 gabled porch and 2 short buttresses at right end of front. Pointed arch window to north side of chapel with dressed stone jambs and voussoirs, each voussoirs, each voussoir scratched on the inner face with a letter forming inscription ICHABOD. Early scratch sundial over 3-light window to south. Chapel has 3 closely spaced raised crucks with 2 tiers of threaded purlins, morticed collars and yokes and with angled chamfers to the soffits in the curve of each blade. The exposed cruck truss at the gable end has a false collar formed from the lower sections of a similar pair at cruck blades, sawn off and set horizontally in the wall to join at the centre. C20 joinery in present east gable end. Ruins of chapel extend east, partly rebuilt at upper end with a crenellated parapet. False four-centred arch to entrance on north side and slit windows on each side wall with deep chamfer to inner faces. The Chapel is said to have C12 origins.

Listing NGR: SS4436238994