[ Chapel Hill, Torquay] ([1845?])
William Spreat
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
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| Devon | West Country Studies | M SC3322 |
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SC3322
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CD 49 DVD 8
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Date
[1845?]
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A guide to Torquay. Torquay: E. Cockrem and W. Elliott, 1841. pp. 10-1.[
] on a conical rock [
] is an interesting old fabric known as St. Michael's Chapel, the origin of this building and the purposes to which it was applied are lost in antiquity, its name has led to the supposition that it was a votive shrine dedicated by some ship-wrecked mariners to their patron saint, others have imagined that it was connected with Tor Abbey, perhaps a penitential cell or a prison, but all is mere conjecture; the cross upon the eastern end was put up by the Marchioness of Bute, a few years since; the Chapel stands upon the apex of a limestone rock, within a few feet from the perpendicular precipice at the western end, its length is twenty-nine feet and a half, by fourteen feet three inches, built of solid masonry, with an arched roof of horizontal slabs, there are no traces of a floor, or any other work in the interior, except some pieces of iron fastened in the wall; the rock has been quarried away considerably since the chapel was built, but it must always have been a very strong position.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
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Lithograph
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135x226mm
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1845