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Summary

A small church was built by the monks of Buckfast Abbey at a very early date on the present site, possibly the chapel of ease referred to in the 14th century.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX74SW/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHAPEL (Early Medieval - 1066 AD to 1399 AD (Between))

Full description

Anon, 1876, Untitled Source, 854-6 (Article in Serial). SDV337662.

Davies, W., 1913, Buckfast Abbey and its relation to Kingsbridge., 149-151 (Article in Serial). SDV141008.

A church was built by the monks of Buckfast Abbey at a very early date on the present site. When first built it was a small church in the Cistercian style, cruciform with a chancel, two trancepts and a nave. There is little if anything left of the old structure. The pillars which support the tower seem to be older than the tower itself, and probably date back to the 11th or 12th century. The church was enlarged and reconsecrated in 1414.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1952 - 1953, SX74SW10 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV337661.

Kingsbridge was in the Parish of Churchstow, both manors belonged to Buckfast Abbey as early as 1333, but how it became possessed of them is not clear. It seems that a chapel of ease was erected at Kingsbridge without rights of sepulture. In 1410 a deed gave a tenement and garden to the Chapel of St Edmund, Kingsbridge when a cemetery had apparently been provided but not used. The importance of Kingsbridge led to the consecration of a church for the town in 1414.

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Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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