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© Mike Bedingfield LRPS
IoE Number:
268795
Location:
FORMER CHAPEL DEDICATED TO ST COLUMBANUS, NOW RUIN, IN THE GROUNDS OF KINGS OF WESSEX SCHOOL AT NGR ST 4573 5315, STATION ROAD (south side)
CHEDDAR, SEDGEMOOR, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mike Bedingfield LRPS
Date Photographed:
03 October 2002
Date listed:
29 January 1985
Date of last amendment:
29 January 1985
Grade
II
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ST45SE CHEDDAR CP STATION ROAD (South side)
6/141 Former chapel dedicated to St
Columbanus, now ruin, in the
grounds of Kings of Wessex
School at NGR ST 4573 5315
-
- II
Former chapel, now ruin. Early C14. Random rubble, oblong on plan, diagonal corner buttresses, that north-east missing;
Featureless north and south walls lowered to approximately one metre of the ground, end walls remain except the upper
portions of the gables; roof completely missing. Western elevation has door opening in a chamfered stone surround with
a pointed arch head; above a blocked window, deep splays and segmental pointed rere-arch to the inside of this wall.
East wall with a blocked window, single trefoiled head of the tracery remaining, deep splays, cusped rere-arch. Remains
of a pent-roofed single storey outshut to east end, roof missing; massive buttress to centre of east wall. Adjacent to
former Saxon royal palace.