Site of Post Medieval House at Village Green
Description of this historic site
The site of a house dating from the Post Medieval period which was known as 'The Chapel'. It was situated at the village green, Hartshill.
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Notes about this historic site
1 One of the cottages on the Green, said to be the birthplace of the poet Michael Drayton, who was born at Hartshill in 1563, was pulled down for road widening in 1941.
2 A ruinous cottage known in 1608 and 1811 as “The Chapel” stood in the centre of the Green; it seems to have been an apsidal building of masonry, but its history is unknown.
3 An elderly local resident confirmed the site of “The Chapel” as deduced above; he stated that it was a single cottage and in no way ecclesiastical.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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