Chapel of St Leonard
CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD, TIVINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345394
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Leonard
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD, TIVINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1345394
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel of St Leonard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD, TIVINGTON
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL OF ST LEONARD, TIVINGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Selworthy
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS9331345045
Details
SS94NW
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SELWORTHY CP
TIVINGTON
Chapel of St Leonard
22.5.69
GV
II*
Anglican chapel. Mid C14, refenestrated mid C15, secularized after Reformation, C16 fireplace inserted in chapel and
enlarged at east end, now Dunkery View (qv), 1896 restored and reconsecrated 1940. Red sandstone random rubble,
thatched roof half hipped to west. Single cell with cottage abutting east, entered west end. North front: two 2-light
trefoil-headed mullions with hoodmoulds flanking lateral stack; west end chamfered pointed arch opening reached by 3
steps, half-glazed C20 door, bell above hung from wooden bracket; south front blocked square headed opening between
large raking buttresses, lancet to east. Interior: rendered, blocked east end window and former door connecting
cottage. Seven bay arch braced roof largely renewed. Reading desk said to have been made from C18 box pews in Selworthy
Church (qv) and mid C19 pews from Milverton Church (qv). The church was restored by the Acland family and the bell is
said to have come from their yacht 'Lady of St Kilda'. Prior to restoration, the chapel was used as a school.
(Photograph in NMR; Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; Allen, Churches and Chapels of
Exmoor, 1974).
Listing NGR: SS9331345045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265536
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Allen, NV, The Churches and Chapels of Exmoor, (1974)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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