The original portion of (chapel) wall as shown exists no longer. It has been knocked down by cattle and all that is visible on the ground at the present time is a low mound. (2)

Grass covered foundations only survive, forming the N wall with parts of the E and W ends. (3)

The chapel site was excavated during 1974. The building which was orientated E-W, consisted of a nave 9m x 6m and a rectangular E chancel 6.5m x 5m, with walls almost 1m thick and a roof of thin limestone slabs. The building technique did not match the quality of the stone blocks, suggesting an earlier building being the source for materials. Two base sherds of late C13 or early C14 were found in the walls. From the C18, the chapel became a source for building materials. Romano-British sherds, a mid-2nd century bronze fibula, and shattered pot-boilers were found, mostly outside the foundation wall trench at the south-eastern corner. (4)

Chapel (GT) (Remains of). (7)

Air photographs taken in 1998 show some slight earthworks in the vicinity of the chapel and include old boundaries which form an enclosure approximately 61m by 64m around the site of the chapel. (8)

NB no documentary references to a chapel have been found.

See L8566 - Ro finds, L8567 - BA pottery, L8568 - cropmarks.
See M4000 for barn, M8943 for well house.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

(4) Library, (5) doc 213

Data Held: Aerial Photograph (Aerial photograph). SNT2645.

1 BW print, JAP 1175/15, SMR

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> OS, 1914-38, 6in 1914-38 (Map). SNT1061.

<2> Unknown, 12/10/1955, LS Reviser (Personal comment). SNT890.

<3> Seaman BH, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1252.

<4> March D, 1975, Pleasley Chapel Site Excavations Report (Monograph). SNT25.

<5> March D, 1976, Moorhaigh Farm: A report on excavation of a mediaeval cistern (Monograph). SNT26.

Other Refs: doc 213

<6> EMAB eds, 1978, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, pp 4-5 (Published document). SNT163.

<7> OS, 1900, 6in, 2nd edition 1900 (Map). SNT2129.

<8> Pickering J, Air photos (Aerial photograph). SNT1148.

SK 5063/4 (17180/13) 19-OCT-1998