Gothic Ruin, About Half A Mile North Of Crowcombe Court is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Folly.
Gothic Ruin, About Half A Mile North Of Crowcombe Court
- WRENN ID
- under-lantern-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST13NW CROWCOMBE CP
10/61 Gothic ruin, about half a mile North of Crowcombe Court
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GV II
Shown on OS Map as Convent (ruin). Folly in the form of ruined Gothic chapel. Circa 1776, incorporating some medieval stonework. Red sandstone random rubble, limestone dressings. Plan: cruciform, East end overlooking stream. 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays; large arched East end window opening, remains of cusped tracery, finials on gable end, flanked by symmetrical, buttressed wings, first floor arched openings, larger 2-light openings below, remains of cusped tracery left. Gabled returns, moulded arched entrance North side, South side round headed arch entrance. Picturesquely sited ruin set high above the stream, half way up a steep wooded slope. Inaccessible at tile of survey (August 1983) because of dense undergrowth. Some of tracery reported to have come from demolished parts of Halsway Manor, or tne earlier Crowcombe Manor, demolished 1724. (Photograph in NMR; VCH Somerset, Vol.5 forthcoming; Country Life, April 22 1933).
Listing NGR: ST1404537350
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