Former Chapel Approximately 10 Metres South Of Brightley Farmhouse

The former chapel, located approximately 10 meters south of Brightley Farmhouse, is an outbuilding that dates back to the medieval period but has undergone significant alterations, likely in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are made of local stone rubble and have been considerably raised with brick. It features a gable-ended roof covered in corrugated iron. The building has a single cell plan with the original entrance located in the right gable end. During the 19th century, doorways were added to the front and rear walls, although the building likely stopped functioning as a chapel long before this. In the 20th century, the roof was raised. The structure is single-storey and includes a central cart entrance with a pentice roof supported by wooden posts that extends along the front wall. The original doorway, now blocked, is made of dressed granite voussoirs in a round-headed arch with dressed granite jambs. Inside, no original features remain, and the roof structure is probably from the 20th century. Brightley was once the site of a religious house founded in 1133 by Richard Fitz Baldwin, which was occupied by a superior and twelve monks from Waverley Abbey until they abandoned it in 1141. They were later relocated to a new site at Ford in East Devon, which became Ford Abbey.