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Summary

Chapel on site of wulphere church. Disused chapel built 1800 appears to incorporate no structural details of the medieval church. Wolford chapel, dunkeswell. Built in 1800 by General Simcoe, his biography. Hatchments bearing the arms of Simcoe.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST10NW/22
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHAPEL (Early Medieval to XXI - 1066 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

NORTH AND SOUTH, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124138.

Chapel belonging to canada.1800, built by lieutenant general john graves simcoe, restored circa 1966. Local stone rubble with limestone ashlar detail; slate roof. Plan: small chapel is rectangular in plan with the entrance in the west end. Exterior: both long sides (north and south) have 2-window fronts of square-headed single light windows containing decorated tracery. In the west end the doorway is a 2-centred arch with hoodmould and directly above is a quatrefoil oculus. There is a chamfered plinth around the building and below it, on the east, west and south sides, are a series of arch-headed niches, most of which contain slate plaques in memory of various members of the simcoe family. The roof is gable-ended with shaped barge boards.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124140.

Osa=st10nw1.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124141.

Des=mhlg(honiton r. D. )2156/11/a,(1950)18-19.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124142.

Wilkin, w. H. /dcnq/21(1940-1941)79-81/the hatchments in wolford chapel.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124143.

Doe/hhr:dunkeswell/(16/3/1988)29.

Wilkin, W. H., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV31915.

Chapel on site of wulphere church. Disused chapel built 1800 appears to incorporate no structural details of the medieval church (os). Wolford chapel, dunkeswell. Built in 1800 by general simcoe, his biography. Hatchments bearing the arms of simcoe, gwillim, etc (wilkin).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV326866.

Interior: the roof structure is hidden by a plaster segmental vault. The walls are plastered and the floor is laid with c19 tiles. Carved oak reredos in gothic style and including painted panels of the lords prayer and commandments. Beerstone ashlar altar in gothic style. Oak altar rail on cast iron standards. The oak reading desk the pews and wainscotting incorporate a great deal of c17 carved pieces including linenfold panels, chip-carved lunettes flowers and the like. The font is beerstone and gothic in style. There are some probably c18 lozenge-shaped boards on the walls painted with armorial bearings. A plague also records that in 1966 the deeds of the chapel were handed to the prime minister of ontario by sir geoffrey harmsworth whose family previously owned restored and maintained the chapel. It is the burial place of lieutenant general john graves simcoe (1752-1806) who was the first lieutenant governor of upper canada, now ontario, and was the founder of the city of york, now toronto. The chapel is apparently built on the site of old wulphere church (doe).

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Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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