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Summary

Site of a Medieval Chapel of St Mary (or St Blaise), attached to Carnanton Manor.

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SW 86 SE 9
• National Record of the Historic Environment to Historic Environment Records data transfer
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 429304
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW86SE 9
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 22211.30
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW86SE 3.1

Monument Type(s):

• CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full description

The Medieval manor house at Carnanton had an attached chapel dedicated to St Mary, whose location is recorded on the 1st and 2nd ed OS maps (7, 8). A summary of the history of the chapel is provided by Preston-Jones (12).

It was licenced in 1331, and again in 1376 and 1387 (1-3). The chapel, along with four closes of land in the parish of Mawgan, was seized in the Chantry Act, and was recorded as in ruins in 1745 (4). The site of the Chapel was marked by a stone, although when the OS visited the site in 1969 this had been removed and the area was by then covered by a flower bed. The gardener reported that in 30 years they had never seen any cropmarks which could indicate the presence of foundations (5). A Tudor doorway and tracery incorporated into a C19 schoolhouse within the grounds of Carnanton may have originated in the chapel (6).

<1> Polsue, J (Editor), 1867-72, Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall, VOL 3, 298 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4139.

<2> Gilbert, CS, 1820, An Historical and Topographical Survey of the County of Cornwall, VOL 2, 611 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3360.

<3> Henderson, C, 1914, Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, VOL III, 68 (Unpublished document). SCO3503.

<4> Henderson, C, 1955-60, Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the 109 parishes of West Cornwall & Ecclesiastical History of the 4 Western Hundreds, 338-339 (Article in Journal). SCO3499.

<5> Field Investigator's Comments, OS/Fletcher, MJ. 1969 (Survey). SCO29739.

<6> Delderfield, ER, 1968, West Country Historic Houses and Their Families, VOL 1, 23 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3213.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1880s, 1st Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4049.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4051.

<9> Henderson, C, 1925, The Cornish Church Guide, 134 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3512.

<10> Borlase, W, 1740, Parochial Memoranda, 142 (Unpublished document). SCO2884.

<11> Sheppard, PA, 1978, St Mawgan Checklist, 121-122 (Article in Journal). SCO4416.

<12> Preston-Jones, A & Croft Andrew, CK, 1984, Carnanton Cemetery, St Mawgan, 1943 (Article in Journal). SCO1473.

<13> Preston-Jones, A & Rose, PG, 1986, Medieval Cornwall, 135 (Article in Journal). SCO4188.

Sources / Further Reading

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Associated Events: none recorded

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