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Summary

Chanter's folly, built in 1841, stood on a hill above Newquay Dock, Appledore. It was demolished in 1952

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS42NE/64

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FOLLY (Built, XIX - 1841 AD to 1841 AD)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Chanter's Folly is shown as a small square building near the edge of a quarry.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Tower visible on edge of quarry.

Pevsner, N., 1952, The Buildings of England: North Devon, 40 (Monograph). SDV336196.

Chanters Folly, 1800. Overlooking the estuary and said to have been built by a merchant to see his ships come in. It is an embattled tower just like any Devon church tower and now stands alarmingly close to a quarry precipice.

Collinge, C. J., 1976, Charles Kingsley in Bideford, 18 (Article in Serial). SDV18938.

Chanter's Folly stood on top of the hill above Appledore in Kingsley's year and long after that.

Timms, S. C., 1984, Untitled Source (Personal Comment). SDV338652.

This folly is shown in a mid-19th century painting of Bideford and the Torridge Estuary, which was acquired by Burton Art Gallery, Bideford, in 1981. Artist and exact date unknown.

Alpha, 1989, The Hubbastone Mine, 16 (Article in Serial). SDV338653.

Exeter Archaeology, 2006, Archaeological Assessment of the Appledore Fish Dock, Appledore, Northam, Site 8 (Report - Assessment). SDV338648.

The folly was demolished in 1952.

Unknown, 24/07/2012, The Island Register (Website). SDV349755.

Thomas Burnard Chanter (1797-1874) owned a fleet of sailing vessels, some of which were built for him in Prince Edward Island and erected a signal tower at Appledore from which to obtain advance notice of his vessels crossing Bideford Bar. This tower, visible from Bideford and later known in its derelict state as Chanter's Folly, was built in 1841 and demolished in 1952.

Baines, C., 24/07/2012, Untitled Source (Personal Comment). SDV349754.

The folly in the mid-19th century painting is possibly that at Wooder House, to the south of Bideford (MDV14288).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4241 - Appledore Fish Dock, Northam

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