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Summary

The remains of a small ruinous rectangular structure measuring 10.3 by 2.9 metres. There is a local tradition that it is the remains of a chapel which was used as a coffin resting place but this has not been substantiated.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE10
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443506
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/131

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHAPEL (Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))
• BUILDING (Constructed, Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV261288.

Des=greeves, t. A. P. /as above. Only fallen masonry remains of the chapel (seymour). Vis=-/6/1983 (greeves) standing building is a two roomed building with fireplace.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map, 89NE (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Des=os 6"(1906)89ne.

Seymour, D. J., 1955 - 1958, The Smaller Manor Houses of Medieval Devon, 15 (Article in Serial). SDV6523.

Ordnance Survey, 1963-1996, 1963-1996 National Grid OS Metric (Cartographic). SDV350058.

Site of chapel shown on map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX68NE10 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV261289.

(07/07/1974) (SX 67278721) Chapel (NR) (site of).
There is a strong local tradition (citing resident Teigncombe Farm Chagford) that there was a chapel at Teigncombe but there is no evidence of cut stone in the rough stone hedges which surround the OS siting.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not recorded in project.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(17/08/1990) SX 6727 8721. A crudely built now ruinous rectangular structure 10.3m NE-SW by 2.9m overall. The walls are of mortared boulders with some massive blocks forming the bottom course and measure 0.7m wide with a maximum height of 2.1m at the N corner. With the exception of a large fireplace in the NW wall near the N corner all internal detail is obscured by rubble and rubbish. There is no evidence pointing to its subdivision as suggested by Greeves nor any obvious entrance.
There is a strong local tradition that this ruined building was a small chapel which served as a coffin resting place however this cannot be substantiated from ground evidence.
See Illustration card, SX 68 NE 94 No 8).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8653 - Teigncombe Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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