Site of Medieval Chapel at Thurlaston

Description of this historic site

The site of a Medieval chapel, possibly associated with the Medieval grange that stood in this area. The chapel is known to have existed from documentary evidence. Its exact location is unknown but it probably stood in an area to the west of Thurlaston.

Notes about this historic site

1 There was anciently a chapel at Thurlaston dedicated to St Edmund. This was standing in 1360, and is said to have been demolished by the Lord Berkeley’s officers in the reign of Elizabeth. Dugdale did not know its site.
2 The chapel is not mentioned in the ‘Taxatio’ or the ‘Valor’.
4 The chapel could have been associated with the Grange at Biggin (see PRN 3087).

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