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The Grand Western Canal flows past the silvered oak door.
Sheep chew up the churchyard, often butting open the door to see what’s inside...
Salmon pink walls, a stripey screen stencilled with stars and pouting cherubs...
Ayshford Chapel is a true Devonshire doozy.
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Sheep chew up the churchyard, often butting open the door to see what’s inside...
Salmon pink walls, a stripey screen stencilled with stars and pouting cherubs...
Ayshford Chapel is a true Devonshire doozy.
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A chapel has been on this site since at least 1282, but the current building dates to the 15th century. It was built as a private chapel for the Ayshford family who lived right next door in Ayshford Court.
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The limestone rubble walls are peppered with quatrefoil panels that fill the putlog holes. Tall Perpendicular windows pour light into the chapel. A single bell hangs in the turret, inscribed ‘The Bell is Henry Ayshford’s 1657’.
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Nobody knows how old the chapel in the woods is.
Nestled among ferns and mosses, behind oaks and maples, it has a numinous presence.
In 1994, some render fell off the south wall exposing herringbone masonry.
At last, the chapel at Milland began to reveal its secrets.
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Nestled among ferns and mosses, behind oaks and maples, it has a numinous presence.
In 1994, some render fell off the south wall exposing herringbone masonry.
At last, the chapel at Milland began to reveal its secrets.
#thread
More work uncovered a round-headed window... These discoveries enabled us to place the origins of part of the chapel in the 11-12th century.
The earliest documentary evidence for the chapel is a will of 1532, when Isabel Colpece left “ii shepe to the Church of Tyklyth”.
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The earliest documentary evidence for the chapel is a will of 1532, when Isabel Colpece left “ii shepe to the Church of Tyklyth”.
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Clearly, Isabel’s sheep didn’t go that far and a survey by the Chichester Archdeaconry in 1602 tells us that “the chauncel two windows unglassed and not paved”, it had “an insufficient seate for the minister” and “the desk is but mean for the bible”.
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