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Latitude: 50.3272 / 50°19'37"N
Longitude: -4.6354 / 4°38'7"W
OS Eastings: 212514
OS Northings: 50798
OS Grid: SX125507
Mapcode National: GBR N6.XP5G
Mapcode Global: FRA 1855.HY3
Plus Code: 9C2Q89G7+VR
Entry Name: Chapel of St Saviour
Listing Date: 21 August 1964
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1329294
English Heritage Legacy ID: 60585
ID on this website: 101329294
Location: Polruan, Cornwall, PL23
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Lanteglos
Built-Up Area: Polruan
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Lanteglos-by-Fowey
Church of England Diocese: Truro
SX lS SW LANTEGLOS-BY-FOWEY POLRUAN
8/63 Chapel of St Saviour
21/8/64
- II
Ruin of chapel, probably C13. Rubblestone foundations and rubblestone remains of
north-west angle of chapel, some 8 or 10 metres in height, with low angle
buttresses. Some fragments of stone window tracery recorded in vicinity in private
garden.
Stands on hilltop at entry of Fowey Haven. St Saviours church was founded in
C8. In 1284, Robert de Boyton gave advousen of the parish church of Lanteglos and
chapel of St Saviour to St Mary and the hospital of St John the Baptist at
Bridgewater. A licence for the chapel was granted and renewed in 1372 and 1374.
Boconnoc estate map of Polruan 1771 shows ruinous remains of the chapel in 2 parts.
A Scheduled Ancient Monument.
N A Ackland and R M Druce Lanteglos-by-Fowey with Polruan and Bodinnick, 1978; C
Henderson The Cornish Church Guide, 1925 rp1964; J Meyrick A Pilgrims guide to the
Holy Wells of Cornwall, 1982
Listing NGR: SX1251450798
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