Chapel of St Mary Magdalene

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SS 41 NE 6/134

LITTLE TORRINGTON TADDIPORT Chapel of St Mary Magdalene

4.10.60

II* Chapel. C13 origins probably remodelled in C15. Rendered stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof.

PLAN: nave, west tower, north transept.

EXTERIOR: very small crenellated west tower with partly blocked four-centred belfry lights which have hoodmoulds over. On south side is four-centred circa late C19 wooden doorway. To its left just below the eaves is a small early C16 three-light roundheaded wooden mullion window. Transept projects on north side. East window is a complete late C19 or early C20 restoration.

INTERIOR: walls retain their old plaster with two panels of C18 painted text on the east wall of the transept and one on the south wall of the nave. The simple roof structure is probably C17 and consists of straight principals with morticed straight collars and trenched purlins. The older carved wall-plate survives in the transept. Late C19 octagonal Perpendicular style font. The chapel was founded in C13 and originally attached to a leprosy hospital.