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Inswork Chapel

England
List entry 1003095
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1003095
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.01 hectares
Grid reference
SX 42646 52739
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Inswork Chapel is a small medieval chapel located in Cornwall, England, with origins likely dating to the medieval period. The site is recorded as an ancient monument and forms part of Cornwall's significant heritage of small rural chapels that served local communities. The chapel's exact dating and architectural details are characteristic of the modest ecclesiastical structures that dot the Cornish landscape, reflecting the religious and social organisation of medieval parish life. As with many Cornish chapels of similar age and scale, it represents an important record of rural Christianity and settlement patterns in the county's history.

Inswork Chapel is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003095. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Inswork Chapel?

Inswork Chapel is a small medieval chapel located in Cornwall, England, with origins likely dating to the medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003095.

Who is responsible for protecting Inswork Chapel?

Inswork Chapel is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003095.

What other scheduled monuments are near Inswork Chapel?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights (1.4 km), Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery at Maker Heights (1.6 km), Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3 (1.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Battery with Royal Commission fortifications called Redoubt No.5 at Maker Heights
1.4 km
Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery at Maker Heights
1.6 km
Two batteries and part of a third at Maker Heights called Redoubt No1, Redoubt No2 and Redoubt No3
1.8 km
Battery and Royal Commission fortification called Grenville Battery
2 km
Whitsand Bay Battery
2.2 km
Whitsand Bay practice battery
2.3 km
Cawsand Fort
2.5 km
Royal Commission fortifications at Forder Hill including two musketry lines and a road block
2.5 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Inswork Chapel

Inswork Chapel stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Inswork Chapel

Battle of Braddock Down (1643)Battle (1643) · ~16.8 miles
Domesday entry for Maker, Devon →
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