Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst
Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst
Odda's Chapel is a Grade I late Anglo-Saxon former chantry at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, in the care of English Heritage and standing beside Abbot's Court farmhouse.
- Location
- Deerhurst, Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Gloucestershire
- City / town
- Deerhurst
- Address
- Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, GL19 4BX
- Postcode
- GL19 4BX
- Built
- 1056
- Consecrated
- 12 April 1056
- Denomination
- English Heritage
- Dedication
- Holy Trinity
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Anglo-Saxon
- Materials
- Random rubble with long-and-short quoins; stone-slate nave roof; chancel of rendered stone, brick and timber-framing with tiled roof
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists a former chapel of 1056 for Earl Odda, recorded by a datestone, later altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and restored in 1885 and 1965. The nave is random rubble with long-and-short quoins and a stone-slate roof. The chancel is rendered stone on the north and irregular-bond brickwork on the south to the ground floor, with timber-framing and rendered panels above and a tiled roof. The listing describes a double-splayed nave window with a semi-circular head, a doorway with plain imposts and a semi-circular head with hoodmould, and a chancel arch with long-and-short quoins, moulded capitals and a horseshoe arch.
Wikipedia and the listing together record that the chapel was completed a decade before the Norman Conquest and dedicated to the Holy Trinity. In 1965 it was disentangled from Abbot's Court and the roof restored. It remains a rare standing late Saxon church, now unconsecrated and open as a historic monument.