Chapel of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II* listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A C15 Chapel.
Chapel of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- twisted-stronghold-quill
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II* listed building with origins dating back to the 13th century, likely remodeled in the 15th century. It features rendered stone rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. The chapel has a plan that includes a nave, a west tower, and a north transept.
The exterior showcases a very small crenellated west tower with partly blocked four-centred belfry lights that have hoodmoulds above. On the south side, there is a four-centred wooden doorway from the late 19th century. To the left of the doorway, just below the eaves, is a small three-light round-headed wooden mullion window from the early 16th century. The transept projects from the north side, and the east window has been completely restored in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Inside, the walls retain their old plaster, featuring two panels of 18th-century painted text on the east wall of the transept and one on the south wall of the nave. The simple roof structure, likely from the 17th century, consists of straight principals with morticed straight collars and trenched purlins. The older carved wall-plate can still be seen in the transept. There is also a late 19th-century octagonal font in the Perpendicular style. The chapel was founded in the 13th century and was originally associated with a leprosy hospital.
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