Chapel at Sheldon is a Grade II listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1975. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Chapel at Sheldon
- WRENN ID
- tilted-pinnacle-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1975
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at Sheldon, Doddiscombsleigh, EX6 7LE
- OS grid reference
- SX 839 870
- Coordinates
- 50.67126, -3.64396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel at Sheldon is probably of late 15th-century origin, with renovations undertaken in the late 20th century. It is no longer consecrated. The building is constructed of colourwashed rendered cob and stone with a thatched, gabled roof. The plan is a simple rectangular single cell aligned east to west.
The exterior is very plain. Steps lead up to the doorway on the south side, with two long, 20th-century slit windows to the right, illuminating the altar. Small, one-light slit windows filled with 20th-century coloured glass are set into the west and east walls.
Inside, there is 20th-century bench seating around the west, north, and south walls. A remarkable, unceiled, late 15th-century wagon roof with moulded ribs is a key feature; wall plates are carved with a bold beaded ribbon. The north wall plate is partly supported by small, plain corbels, and the roof bays do not appear to be perfectly aligned with the space. White’s Devon (1850) documented the existence of an ancient chapel at Sheldon.
Local climate
Chapel at Sheldon receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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