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Summary

Site of st. Gabriels chapel and medieval hospital.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX99SE/21
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOSPITAL (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

1982, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV129994.

In the late 1960's houses were built on the hospital site without prior archaeological excavation. A summary of documents relating to the chapel and hospital is given by brown (1982).

NMR CITING MURPHY + HENDERSON + JERVOISE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV129996.

Clyst gabriel - a lesser hospital with a net income under £50, which existed until ad1500. Has also been a priests' house. It is now the village post office. There is no trace today of the e 14c chapel and hospital (nmr citing murphy + henderson + jervoise).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV129997.

Pengelly, w. /tda/18(1886)366/prince's 'worthies of devon' and the 'dictionary of national biography', part 2.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV129998.

Murray, j. /handbook for travellers in devon and cornwall/(1872)62.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV129999.

Oliver, g. /lives of the bishops of exeter/(1861)41,43.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130000.

Osa=sx99se2.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130001.

Lysons, d. + s. /magna britannia/6(1822)236-237.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130002.

Des=the history and antiquities of the parish of clyst st george/(1862).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130003.

Alcock, n. W. /tda/94(1962)217-220/houses in an east devon parish.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130004.

Alcock, n. W. /tda/105(1973)158/an east devon manor in the later middle ages, part 3:sowton.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130005.

Alcock, n. W. /tda/107(1975)94/fields and farms in an east devon parish.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130006.

Knowles, d. + hadcock, r. N. /medieval religious houses/(1971)318,353.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130007.

Doe/hhr:st. Thomas rd/(1947)104.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130008.

Lancefield, a. P. /dcnq/7,pt.1(1912-1913)157-158,160/saint gabriel in devon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130009.

Brown, s. W. /pdas/40(1982)163-170/the medieval bridge and st. Gabriel's chapel,bishop's clyst.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130010.

Des=murphy, fr(history master, winslade house school, clyst st. Mary)/papers in possession of fr murphy.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV130011.

Henderson, c. + jervoise, e. /old devon bridges/(1938)69.

SIC, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV3038.

Hospital of st. Gabriel at clyst: bishop walter bonescombe founded within the precincts of his palace a chantry chapel of st. Gabriel in 1276, which was served by 2 priests. The chapel was removed to the village of bishop's clyst in 1311. This site comprised 1 acre and was bounded on the sw by the road to sidmouth and on the other side by the parish of sowton. From being a residence for 2 priests, it was enlarged into a hospital for 12 old and infirm priests. In 1508 bishop oldham appropriated its revenues to the custody of the vicars of exeter cathedral, who were deprived of it in the reign of edward vi. Queen elizabeth i restored it to them in 1585. There was a note among the list of rectors that john allar, who resigned in november 1390, died custos (sic) of the house or chapel of st. Gabriel, clyst bridge.

DMG, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV68198.

Site of st. Gabriels chapel and medieval hospital. Unknown (pre 1947)(doe) the left hand end of the present house is roughcast with no windows. At one time it is said that an old chapel projected from this part as a wing. At the front of the present house, and in ruins, is an octagon of thick heavitree stone which may be the base of a bell tower, probably 16th century, and the only part of the present structure that was part of the hospital. The one acre plot occupied by the hospital was owned by the dean and chapter at the time of the tithe map, and was an enclave of farringdon parish (alcock, 1975). Site now occupied by modern houses (dmg).

LANCEFIELD, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77969.

Referred to as the home of st. Barnabus. Founded by bishop bronescombe (lancefield).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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