Medieval chapel.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867-8 shows the site of a chapel and burial ground at this location, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground (Site of)'. A marker is placed on the site, which lies in an open field a little to the north of a field boundary.


No direct evidence for a chapel has been found at the site. The discovery of an artificially hollowed stone, which may be a font, does however suggest that a building may have been present on the site.


Furthermore, the regular form of the surrounding field pattern would imply that the farm was the subject of the type of rearrangement and improvement which saw the introduction of new efficient agricultural practices in the 1830s and 1840s. This may have resulted in the clearance of the site and the incorporation of materials from a chapel structure into a new hedge nearby, and would also appear to be consistent with the discovery a few years before the OS of several lintel graves at the site.