Chisbury Chapel
St Martin's Chapel, known as Chisbury Chapel, is a mediæval former chapel next to the manor house in the hamlet of Chisbury in Wiltshire.
St Martin's was built in the early part of the 13th century,[1] on the edge of Chisbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort.[2] There are written records of it from 1246 onwards and its surviving architecture is contemporary with that period.[1]
The walls are faced with flint. The windows have the remains of good-quality Decorated Gothic tracery that suggests they were added in the latter part of the 13th century.[1][3]
Between 1496 and 1518 St. Martin's lacked a priest, but it was served again from then until 1547.[1] Thereafter St. Martin's lapsed from use for worship and was re-used as a barn.[1] It was re-roofed with thatch in the 19th century.
The chapel is a scheduled ancient monument[4] and is in the guardianship of English Heritage.[5]
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- Location map: 51°23’24"N, 1°35’55"W
- Chisbury Chapel – English Heritage
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A History of the County of Wiltshire - Volume : {{{2}}} (Victoria County History) - Kinwardstone Hundred}}
- ↑ National Heritage List 1013400: Chisbury Camp and St Martin's Chapel
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1963; 1975 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09659-0
- ↑ National Heritage List 1004708: Chapel at Knowle House
- ↑ Chisbury Chapel
