Chapel of St Martin is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1984. Chapel.
Chapel of St Martin
- WRENN ID
- secret-frieze-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1984
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Martin, Bickleigh
- OS grid reference
- SX 473 645
- Coordinates
- 50.46078, -4.15161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Martin, built between 1877 and 1879 by St Aubyn, is located to the north-east of Maristow House. It features grey dressed random rubble with yellow freestone dressings and has a slate roof, showcasing a Decorated style. The chapel includes a nave with three south windows, each containing two lights with geometric tracery, and a five-light east window also with geometric tracery. There is a north transept and two windows at the west end of the south side above the porch. The first stage of the west end has a canopied niche at the corner, which contains a figure of a saint. Above this, the ball stage is adorned with flat pilasters at the corners and two-light ball openings in double hollow-chamfered orders. The structure is topped with a stone broach spire featuring lucarnes at its base.
Inside, the chapel has marble nook-shafts supporting the south and east windows, and an arch-braced boarded roof over the east end, which is decorated with bosses. The principals of the roof are supported on marble colonnettes with angles over the capitals. At the west end, there is a three-bay arcade with cusped arches and a marble reredos. The original site of St Martin's chapel is located immediately to the east.
Local climate
Chapel of St Martin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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