Holy Trinity Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Chapel.
Holy Trinity Chapel
- WRENN ID
- gentle-merlon-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holy Trinity Chapel is a building that has been converted from a former house and barn. The house dates back to 1658, while the chapel was rebuilt around 1880. It features plastered cob on exposed rubble footings, with some 19th-century brick, and has a pantile roof. The structure is a long, gable-ended building facing south with a simple rectangular plan.
At the west end of the south front, there is a door behind a gabled porch made of open timber framing on low plastered walls. The front has five windows, consisting of four high timber-framed windows for the nave and a smaller window for the chancel. The two western nave windows have three lights and a central transom, while the others are two-light. All windows feature chamfered mullions and shoulder-headed arches and contain the original glazing, which consists of geometric patterns of small leaded panes of translucent, pale-colored glass. The brick coping on the western gable is topped with a small timber-framed belfry.
Inside, remnants of the two-storey 17th-century house are visible in the west wall. There is a stone fireplace on the ground floor, now a cupboard, which has an ovolo-moulded oak lintel with bar-run-out stops and is inscribed with the initials "L WI" and the date 1658. Above it, on the west wall, there is a first-floor hooded fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel and unusual lozenge stops, positioned high above a disused floor beam that is chamfered with scroll stops. The high flat ceiling may conceal some 17th-century trusses, but only five 19th-century beams on raking struts are exposed.
The chapel is fitted with entirely 19th-century furnishings that are similar to the contemporary work found in the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Cheriton Bishop, which is the mother church. This includes similarly carved choir stalls and ironwork made by the same local craftsman. The original oil lamps are still present but have been converted to electricity.
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