Remains of the Chapel of St James, Tachbrook Mallory, Bishops Tachbrook

1 In 1336 John Mallory set aside land to support a chaplain to celebrate in the chapel of St James. The chantry had evidently fallen out of use before 1493 at which time it is referred to as a former chapel of St James and St Luke. Remains of a Medieval chapel which now forms the back wing and outbuildings of a small farm house. It was about 3.9m wide internally and about 13m long but was probably originally longer. About midway in the S wall is an original buttress and on the N side the scars of another. These were required to resist the thrust of a cross arch which divided the nave from the chancel. The gabled E wall retains traces of a (?) C14 window. In the S wall are the remains of 3 windows and in the N wall traces of another. There is no trace of an original doorway. An upper floor was inserted in the late C16. The W end of the chapel was cut off when the C17 house was built.
3 An old disused chapel of the early Tudor period. Traces of a N doorway are visible.
4 The windows and doorways have been much altered and of the original building the shell only remains.
5 The remains of the Medieval chapel are embodied in the rear wing of a small C17 red brick farmhouse. The whole extensively modified 1970s.